Bees.- Lawson (William) A new Orchard, and Garden; or, The best way for Planting, Grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard, 2 parts in 1, woodcut title vignette (repeated in text D1, with very small hole affecting image and two letters on verso), other woodcut illustrations including 10 of knot-gardens, lacking final 6 ff. (pp.125-134), several ff. towards end with light damp-staining to upper corner, occasional spotting or minor instances of soiling, nineteenth century half morocco, upper cover detached, spine and extremities rubbed, [Wing L730; cf. British Bee Books 20 for 1618 ed.], 4to, by W. Wilson, for John Harison, 1648.

⁂ One of the many seventeenth-century editions. Part 2, The Country House-Wives Garden is the first gardening book for women; it has a separate title page, and includes a chapter entitled, The Husbandry of Bees (pp.98-107) with a woodcut of a frame for holding hives. The pages lacking at the end (pp.125-134) are the chapter by Simon Hayward, "The husdandmans fruitfull orchard" relating to picking, packing, transporting and preserving fruit.