The second booke of the English husbandman. : Contayning the ordering of the kitchin-garden, and the planting of strange flowers: the breeding of all manner of cattell. Together with the cures, the feeding of cattell, the ordering both of pastures and meddow-ground: with the vse both of high-wood and vnder-wood. Whereunto is added a treatise, called Good mens recreation: contayning a discourse of the generall art of fishing, with the angle, and otherwise; and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together vvith the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyeting of the fighting cocke. A worke neuer written before by any author. By G.M.
1614
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The second booke of the English husbandman. : Contayning the ordering of the kitchin-garden, and the planting of strange flowers: the breeding of all manner of cattell. Together with the cures, the feeding of cattell, the ordering both of pastures and meddow-ground: with the vse both of high-wood and vnder-wood. Whereunto is added a treatise, called Good mens recreation: contayning a discourse of the generall art of fishing, with the angle, and otherwise; and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together vvith the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyeting of the fighting cocke. A worke neuer written before by any author. By G.M.
Uniform title
English husbandman. Part 2-3
Secrets of angling.
Secrets of angling.
Created/published
London : Printed by T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1614.
Description
[16], 56, 59-205 [i.e. 105], [1]; [2], 51, [3] p. ; (4to)
Associated name
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Dennys, John, -1609. Secrets of angling.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Dennys, John, -1609. Secrets of angling.
Note
G.M. = Gervase Markham.
Printer's name from STC.
"The pleasures of princes, or Good mens recreations", a prose paraphrase with additions of "The secrets of angling" by John Dennys, has separate dated title page, pagination, and register.
The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A"; the last leaf is blank.
P. 105 misnumbered 205.
A variant (STC 17356a) has title pages dated 1615.
Printer's name from STC.
"The pleasures of princes, or Good mens recreations", a prose paraphrase with additions of "The secrets of angling" by John Dennys, has separate dated title page, pagination, and register.
The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A"; the last leaf is blank.
P. 105 misnumbered 205.
A variant (STC 17356a) has title pages dated 1615.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 17356
Poynter, Markham, no. 21.1(ii)
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S112058
Poynter, Markham, no. 21.1(ii)
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S112058
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
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STC 17356
Folger-specific note
HH140/31. Imperfect: part 2 only. Leaves (A)3,4 from part 1 bound in after ²G3 and before final blank. Goatskin binding by F. Bedford; all edges gilt. Provenance: armorial bookplate of Dodgson Hamilton Madden (motto "fortior qui se vincit"); Sotheby's sale, May 25, 1925, lot 390; collated at Quaritch, June 8, 1925; Harmsworth copy