Editor: Gillian Saunders
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Publication: 1985, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, section sewn
Pages: 48
Size: 190 x 190
Text: English
ISBN: 0905209591
(Preface) ‘The sweet orange was introduced into Europe from China, lemons from Burma. They were, and still are, grown widely in the warmer regions of southern Europe: Spain, Portugal, Italy and Sicily. Citrus fruits were a rarity in England at least until the 16th century, but there are occasional references to their appearance earlier. A homesick Spanish princess Eleanor of Castile (the wife of Edward I) bought fifteen lemons and seven oranges from a ship that docked at Ports-mouth in 1290; and in 1347 customs records show a payment of three shillings and fourpence as duty on 400 oranges. It would seem though that the oranges rarely reached England in prime condition and were often found to be rotten inside: "Give not this rotten orange to your friend" says Claudio to Don Pedro in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (Act IV, Sc. I)…’
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