MASCALL, Leonard (d. 1589). A Booke of the Arte and Maner how to plant and grasse all sortes of trees. London: John Wight, 1575. Small 4° (176 x 128mm). Woodcut vignette on title, repeated on L1v, one woodcut plate illustrating grafting tools, 4 cuts and one diagram in text, ornamental initials, head and tailpieces. (Occasional light soiling or spotting, top margins shaved, occasionally touching headline). Green calf gilt by Bayntun, Bath, gilt edges (spine lightly sunfaded, a few light scuff marks). Provenance: old manuscript inscription on title ('This should have been bound after the table in the beginning of this book').

MASCALL, Leonard (d. 1589). A Booke of the Arte and Maner how to plant and grasse all sortes of trees. London: John Wight, 1575. Small 4° (176 x 128mm). Woodcut vignette on title, repeated on L1v, one woodcut plate illustrating grafting tools, 4 cuts and one diagram in text, ornamental initials, head and tailpieces. (Occasional light soiling or spotting, top margins shaved, occasionally touching headline). Green calf gilt by Bayntun, Bath, gilt edges (spine lightly sunfaded, a few light scuff marks). Provenance: old manuscript inscription on title ('This should have been bound after the table in the beginning of this book').

Third edition of the popular treatise, first published in 1569 and based on David Brossard's L'art et manière de semer et faire pépinières de sauvageaux. Henrey I, 258; STC 17575.