Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682
Title:
The garden of Cyrus, or, The quincuncial Lozenge, or, Network plantations of the ancients artificially, naturally, mystically consider'd / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician of Norwich.
Alternate Title(s):
Garden of Cyrus
Published / Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire : Printed & sold at the Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:
[1], 4-58, [6] pages ; 27 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR3327 .A64 1923+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Here ends the Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincuncial Lozenge, or Network plantations of the ancients. CXV copies, of which CV are for sale, printed at the Golden Cockerel Press & finished April VI, MCMXXIII."--Colophon.

Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 11

SML,Y Ij B818 C923 1: No. 81.

BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 51 of 115. Bound in beige quarter buckram with gray paper covered boards. Bookplate: Percy Lancelot Babington.
Subject Terms:
Gardening -- Early works to 1800. | Cyrus, the Great, King of Persia, -530 B.C. or 529 B.C. | Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens. | Babington, Percy Lancelot -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawence.