Evelyn (John).- [Bonnefons (Nicolas de)] The French gardiner: instructing how to cultivate all sorts of fruit-trees, and herbs for the garden...Whereunto is annexed, The English vineyard vindicated by John Rose..with a tract of the making and ordering of wines in France, translated by John Evelyn, third edition, engraved additional pictorial title and 4 plates (3 signed A. Hertocks), of which 1 folding, first quire working loose, trimmed at head, occasionally affecting a headline, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, 18th century sheep, later leather to spine, worn, but holding firm, [Keynes 9; Henrey p.231; Hunt 320; Simon BG 620; Wing B3601 & R1937; cf. Bitting p.48 & Livres en bouche 120 (French editions)], 8vo, Printed by S.S. for Benj: Tooke at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1672.

⁂ A rare edition in commerce. It was Evelyn's first horticultural work, which he dedicated to his friend Thomas Henshaw, at whose suggestion he had undertaken the translation.