First issued 1614. Getty copy closest to Savage's state 4 (Arnhem, 1617). Savage did not encounter state 4 with the preliminary text in French or English, but he writes that these might occur

Added engraved Latin title: Hortus floridus, in quo rariorum & minus vulgarium florum icones ... incredibili labore ac diligentia Crisp. Passaei junioris delineatae ac suum in ordinem redactae ao. 1614

Letterpress section with indications of colors of the flowers and appropriate pigments to reproduce them, 2nd leaf verso through 13th. This is followed by an engraved, four-page addendum on raising tulips (present in Getty copy but not in all copies)

Special added titles for Aestas horti floridi, Autumnus horti floridi, and Hortus floridus hyemalis. According to imprints on these titles, the first two were printed by Jan Jansz in Arnhem in 1617 and 1616 respectively, the third by Crispijn van de Passe in Utrecht, 1614

Second pt. has special added title: Alter pars horti floridi in qua praeter flores, varia etiam reperiuntur arborum fructiferarum, fruticum, plantarrum quoque et herbarum medicinalium genera, per Crisp. Passaeum in lucem edita

Each of the four seasons is preceded by an engraving of a garden. [Spring] is preceded by Savage's Garden 2, the other three by Garden 1

Engravings of flowers and letterpress descriptions printed on two sides of the same leaves

Some engravings in "Aestas horti floridi" signed by Willem van de Passe or Simon van de Pass

Frontispiece to pt. 2 has legend: Formulis Crispiani Passaei et Joannis Waldnelij ("From designs of Crispijn van de Passe [the Elder] and Ioan Woutneel"; see Savage)

Foliation, pt. 1, [preliminary text]: [15] leaves -- [Spring]: [2] leaves, 1-52, 52, 54 leaves with plates (letterpress descriptions numbered I-XLIX, XXXVIII-XLI) -- Aestas: [2] leaves, 1-20 leaves with plates (descriptions numbered 1-20) -- Autumnus: [2] leaves, 25, [26], 25 [i.e. 27] leaves with plates (descriptions numbered [1], 3-25, [26] -- Hortus floridus hyemalis: [3] leaves, 1.d-d.12 leaves with plates (descriptions numbered 1-12) -- pt. 2: [2] leaves, [61] leaves with plates (all but plates 53 & 120 reproduce two plants each, the plants being numbered consecutively 1/2-120; descriptions numbered I/II-CXIX/CXX)

Preliminary text signed: A-F² chi². Of the four seasons, [Spring] and Aestas only are signed: ²A-3G1, ³A-V1. Pt. 2 unsigned

Savage, S. The Hortus Floridus of Crispijn vande Passe the Younger, in The Library, v. 4 (London, 1923)

Added engraved title leaf of Getty copy trimmed to line border and remargined, with loss of text beyond border at base: Extant Arnhemij. Apud Ioannem Ianssonium Bibliopolam ibid. (See Savage.)

One tulip on plate 54 of [Spring] and allegorical figure on frontispiece to Hortus floridus hyemalis are pricked as for pouncing

Plate 64/65 (pt. 2) bound upside down

Binding: red goatskin tooled in gilt, signed Semet & Plumelle. Page edges gilt. In cloth-covered slipcase, the opening edged with goatskin

John Landwehr's printed label, and pencilled bibliographical note on front flyleaf

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