Gardening.- Rea (John) Flora: seu, De Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege..., second edition, with 'The Mind of the Front' verses leaf at beginning, additional engraved allegorical title, title in red & black, 8 engraved plates containing 16 plans of formal gardens, 3 fine engraved head-pieces of floral displays by F.H. van Hove, woodcut initials, some light soiling or staining, hole to Y1 with loss of a few letters, worming to inner margin with occasional slight loss, paper flaw tear to R4, one plate torn at lower margin, contemporary panelled calf, a little worn, rebacked and repaired, new endpapers, [Henrey 3266; Wing R422], folio, by T[homas] N[ewcomb] for George Marriott, 1676.

⁂ "The most important English treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century." (Henrey p.195). The work is enthusiastically referred to in the diaries of John Evelyn.