Gardening.- Evelyn (John) Kalendarium hortense; or, The gard'ner's almanac, directing what he is to do monthly throughout the year. And what fruits and flowers are in prime, eighth edition, printed in red and black, engraved additional pictorial title and a full-page illustration, errata to final verso, final 2 ff. blank, contemporary ink marginalia and notes to rear endpapers, printed title trimmed (just within text at outer margin and affecting imprint) and mounted on stub, wormholes / mostly short track to lower inner gutters, occasionally just touching the odd letter, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary sheep, gilt (dulled) spine in compartments and with red leather label, upper cover detached, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing E3499; ESTC R216389], 8vo, Printed for Matthew Gillyflower, at the Spread-Eagle in Westminster-Hall, and James Partridge, at the Post-House at Charing-Cross, 1691.

⁂ With an interesting provenance and contemporary annotations, some of which reference the writings of Sir Hugh Plat.

Provenance: Horace Somerville Sewell (1881-1953), British Army officer (one of the few officers of African descent to serve in WWI), and grandson of the prominent Jamaican plantation owner William Sewell and Mary McCrea, a former slave (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown).