. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. books is that of Thomas Hyll, or Hill,whose work A moste Briefe and Pleasaunt TreatyseTeachynge How to Dress, Sowe and Set a Garden waspublished in 1563. It has a captivating charm, especiallyin the earlier, black-letter editions. In later editions thename of the author appears as Didymus Mountaine(Didymus = Thomas, Mountaine = Hill), and thebook becomes The Gardeners Labyrinth. He published two figures of mazes, which we repro-duce as Figs. 75 and 76. In the 1579 edition—TheProfitable Art of Gardening—they are respec
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. books is that of Thomas Hyll, or Hill,whose work A moste Briefe and Pleasaunt TreatyseTeachynge How to Dress, Sowe and Set a Garden waspublished in 1563. It has a captivating charm, especiallyin the earlier, black-letter editions. In later editions thename of the author appears as Didymus Mountaine(Didymus = Thomas, Mountaine = Hill), and thebook becomes The Gardeners Labyrinth. He published two figures of mazes, which we repro-duce as Figs. 75 and 76. In the 1579 edition—TheProfitable Art of Gardening—they are respectivelyplaced at the heads of different chapters, the openings ofwhich are worth quoting: Here by the way (Gentle Reader) I do place twoproper Mazes, the one before this Chapter, and the otherafter, as proper adornments upon pleasure to a Garden,that who so listeth, having such roomth in their Garden,may place the one of them, which liketh them best, in 103 that voide place of the Garden that maye beste be sparedfor the onelye purpose, to sporte in them at times, which. Fig. 75.—Herbal Labyrinth. (T. Hill, 1579.)
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