HET VERIMl-CELYCK LANDT-LEVEN 
”0611 nederlandtsen hovenier” (Amsterdam, 1670), by Jan van der Groen, 
contains a privilege dated ”Den 10. December, in »t jaer 1668,” which was 
granted to Marcus Willemsz. Doornick for the publication of ”Zeker Boeck, 
geintituleert Het Vermakelyck landt-leven, bestanden in drie deelen, eerst, 
den Verstandigen hovenier, ten tweeden, de Nederlandtsen hovenier ... ende 
ten derden, den Ervaren huys-liouder, mitgaders de Verstandige Kock.” This 
privilege was transferred by Doornick, June 30, 1677, to Michiel de Groot, 
and renewed by him or his successors^ since later editions of ”Het Verma¬ 
kelyck landt-leven” have a privilege dated 1711, granted for 15 years to 
Gijsbert de Groot. 
”Den verstandigen hovenier,” by Petrus Nylandt, was first published in 
1669 as Deel I, probably the only part of ”Het Vermakelyck landt-leven” is¬ 
sued in that year. Altho a work by Jan van der Groen was published by Door¬ 
nick in 1669, it was the French and German ”Le jardinier hollandois ... Der 
niederlandische garten,” later editions of which are entitled ”Le jardinier 
du Pays-Bas”; and this does not appear to have ever formed part of ”Het Ver¬ 
makelyck landt-leven.” The Dutch text of van der Groen, ”Den nederlandtsen 
hovenier,” seems to have been first issued in 1670, numbered Deel I of the 
collective work, and in the same year Nylandt*s book, ”Den verstandigen ho¬ 
venier,” was reissued as Deel II, retaining this number in later editions. 
Deel III, ”Den ervaren huys-houder, of Medicyn-winckel,” or sometimes with 
reversed title, ”De medicyn-winckel, of Ervaren huys-houder,” is also by P. 
Nylandt but is not included in the present bibliography. 
Some of the bibliographical records do not show whether van der Groen’s 
"Den nederlandtsen hovenier” and Nylandt's "Den verstandigen hovenier” were 
issued as parts of the "Vermakelyck landt-leven” or not. The combined work 
is apt to be bound in various ways, and often has no general title-page, but 
so far as we have seen, the actual numbering of Deel I and II is always the 
same. The following editions of Van der Groen have been listed: 1670, 1672, 
1679, 1683, 1686, 1687, 1696, 1721; and of Nylandt; 1669, 1670, 1672, 1679, 
1683, 1687, 1710, 1711. 
For further details about individual editions, see in the present bib¬ 
liography; Groen, Jan van der, "Den nederlandtsen hovenier”; and Nylandt, 
Petrus, "Den verstandigen hovenier.” 
