1610. Fiue hundred points of good husbandry. : As well for the champion or open country, 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 diet for the farmer, of the properties of winds, plants, hops, herbes, bees and approued remedies for sheep and cattell, 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 foorth by Thomas Tusser, Gentleman.
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1610. Fiue hundred points of good husbandry. : As well for the champion or open country, 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 diet for the farmer, of the properties of winds, plants, hops, herbes, bees and approued remedies for sheep and cattell, 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 foorth by Thomas Tusser, Gentleman.
Uniform title
Hundreth good pointes of husbandrie
Created/published
At London : Printed [by Nicholas Okes] for the Company of Stationers, [1610]
Description
161, [3] p. ; (4to)
Associated name
Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580, author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899, former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899, 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.
In verse.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A-K⁸ L².
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
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Copies 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), 24388
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S118733
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S118733
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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STC 24388 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs60. (Re-bound; formerly bound in c19 calf.) There is a comma after "bees" in title. A3 and A6 do not appear to be conjugate; A6 possibly from another copy. McKee bookplate signed: "EDF 1895." MS. markings and notes throughout, some in red crayon. Title leaf damaged, affecting title. Cropped, affecting headlines, side-notes, direction-lines, and MS. notes. Stained. Provenance: inscribed on A1r: "C. Lewis"; inscribed on A1v: "Will: [William] Forsyth 18[03?]"; according to Anderson cat. description, Thomas Parks copy, with MS. notes in his hand (Parks's name does not appear inscribed in book); engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Jefferson McKee (motto "meum et tuum"); 1901 Folger purchase from John Anderson, N.Y. (McKee Sale, Pt.IV:lot 3197)
Call number
STC 24388 copy 2
Folger-specific note
HH206/20. There is a comma after "bees" in title. c19 stiff-board vellum binding; formerly bound in calf (see MS. note on front free endpaper). c19 newspaper clippings pasted and tipped in. MS. notes. Cropped and wormed throughout, affecting headlines, text, side-notes, and direction-lines. Front free endpaper repaired. Provenance: dated (1813) MS. note on front free endpaper describing this copy in its then state, with MS. price, and bookseller: "2:12:6 / Triphooks Catalogue / St. James Str[ee]t London / 1813"; blind-stamped "T. (?) Burrel" on front cover; MS. note at end signed: "G:B:B: Xm[a]s 1814"; armorial bookplate of William Fuller Maitland (motto "luctor at emergam") (Fuller bookplate pasted over another bookplate (?)); Harmsworth copy