Fiue hundred points of good husbandry. : As well for the champion or open countrey, as also for the woodland or seuerall, mixed in euery moneth with huswifery, ouer and besides the booke of huswifery. Corrected, better ordered, and newly augmented to a fourth part more, with diuers other lessons, as a dyet for the farmer, of the properties of winds, plants, hops, hearbs, bees, and approued remedies for sheepe and cattle; with many other matters both profitable, and not vnpleasant for the reader. Also two tables, one of husbandry, and the other of huswifery, at the end of the booke, for the better and easier finding out of any matter contained in the same. Newly set forth by Thomas Tusser Gentleman.
1620
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Fiue hundred points of good husbandry. : As well for the champion or open countrey, as also for the woodland or seuerall, mixed in euery moneth with huswifery, ouer and besides the booke of huswifery. Corrected, better ordered, and newly augmented to a fourth part more, with diuers other lessons, as a dyet for the farmer, of the properties of winds, plants, hops, hearbs, bees, and approued remedies for sheepe and cattle; with many other matters both profitable, and not vnpleasant for the reader. Also two tables, one of husbandry, and the other of huswifery, at the end of the booke, for the better and easier finding out of any matter contained in the same. Newly set forth by Thomas Tusser Gentleman.
Uniform title
Hundreth good pointes of husbandrie
Created/published
At London : Printed [by Thomas Purfoot] for the Company of Stationers, An. Dom. 1620.
Description
161, [3] p. ; (4to)
Associated name
Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580, author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Massey, Mary P., former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Massey, Mary P., former owner.
Note
An enlarged edition of "A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie", first published in 1557.
In verse.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A-K⁸ L².
Stationers' register: Entered to the English Stock 5 March [1620]
In verse.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A-K⁸ L².
Stationers' register: Entered to the English Stock 5 March [1620]
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
STC 24390 copy 1 & 2 Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening: Closed and upright.
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), 24390
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S118741
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S118741
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 24390 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH206/21. Polished mottled calf, signed by Riviere & son. Provenance: Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 24390 copy 2
Folger-specific note
245023. Occasional tears to leaves affecting a few letters; stained; final two leaves shaved at top. Provenance: initial on t.p.: R:; initials on second leaf: R:P:N:; inscriptions of Rependam (?) 1693/4; Thom. Hawe-?; Jno. Neale (John Neale); Anne Lloyde; gift of Mrs. Mary P. Massey, with her bookplate