Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or A Garden of all sorts of pleasant Flowers which our English ayre will permit to be noursed up: With A Kitchen Garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, and fruites, for meate or sauseused with us, And An Orchard of all sort of fruit-bearing Trees and Shrubbes fit for our Land. Together With the right ordering, planting, and preserving of them and their uses and vertue. Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London

London. Printed by Tho Cotes, and are to be sold by John Grismond. 1635. Folio (in 6s), 302 x 193 mms., pp. [xii], 612 [613 - 628 indexes], woodcut portrait before page 1, 110 full-page engraved woodcuts, vignette woodcuts on page 294, vignette woodcut plans on pages 537 and 543, names in ink in margins of pages, 428, 530, 544, and margins of Indexes Fff3-6, armorial bookplate of George Arnold, "One of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Chamber" with the autograph "E. Lindsay" beneath, and below that "sum A. Oliveri van Oss MCMXXXVI," bound in contemporary sheepskin, spine gilt in compartments with two red leather labels laid down with joints skilfully restored; some slight water-staining, corner torn fomr pages 213-214 with loss of one letter on page 214, most leaves with print-through of woodcuts, title-page a bit stained as are last two leaves of index, and corner last leaf of index repaired, but for the most part a very good copy. The first three words on the title-page are, as every schoolboy knows, a pun on the author's surname. George Arnold George Arnold, of Ashby St. Ledgers (Northamptonshire, England), was made Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to George III c.1782 The apothecary and herbalist John Parkinson (1566/1577 - 1650) published this book in 1629, and John Ray described the book as "the most full and comprehensive book of that subject extant." Charles I conferred the title Botanicus Regius Primarius on Parkisnon after the first edition was published. It is probably one of the most impressive books with woodcut illustrations published in the early 17th century. For the record, the full-page woodcuts are found on the recto of the leaf with one exception, page 4 and 32 and thus on pages 29, 32, 37, 41,47, 51, 57, 59, 71, 75, 81, 85, 89, 93, 97, 101, 107, 113, 117, 121, 125, 131, 137, 142, 149, 151, 155, 159, 163, 169, 175, 183, 191, 197, 201, 205, 211, 219, 221, 227, 233, 237, 243, 251, 255, 259, 263, 267, 273, 279, 285, 291, 297, 305, 307, 313, 315, 321, 325, 331, 337, 343, 351, 355, 361, 307 [sic, for 367],373, 381, 387, 395, 399, 403, 409, 515, 419, 423, 429, 535, 443, 451, 457, 475, 481, 485, 487, 493, 497, 501, 505, 507, 511, 517, 519, 523, 527, 531, 559, 565, 569, 573, 577, 581, 585, 592, 597, 601, 605, and 609. It is worth noting that the Oxford DNB calls this work, Parkinson's Paradisi (1629), Parkinson's "first and best-loved book" and "the first work published on English gardening." Blanche Henrey 284 gives an issue for this year but with Richard Royston as the bookseller, noting that that issue "is made up of the sheets of the 1629 edition, with a letterpress title-page dated 1635 in addition to the woodcut title-page." Issues with John Grismond as the seller are found in Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Lloyd Library, and South Carolina. See also Anna Parkinson's biography Nature's Alchemist: John Parkinson, Herbalist to Charles I (2007). The only edition or issue that the online ESTC locates of any 1635 printing of Parkinson's Paradisi is ESTC S94613. Of extant copies of that edition, the ESTC finds but one: the copy at NYPL at shelfmark "Arents 197", which suggests that George Arents bought it for its tobacco content for his unrivalled collection of books on that subject. The volume on offer, however, is a different edition or issue, as the imprint on the title-page reads not "Printed by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Richard Royston" but rather "Printed by Tho Cotes, and are to be sold by John Grismond". The volume on offer appears to be a lifetime edition of Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris that is entirely unrecorded in the ESTC. It must be noted that the Oxford DNB calls this work, Parkinson's Paradisi (1629), Parkinson's "first and best-loved book" and "the first work published on English gardening".