England's happiness increased or, A sure and easy remedie against succeeding dear years by a plantation of the roots called potatoes, whereof (with the addition of wheat flower) excellent, good and wholesome bread may be made, every year, eight or nine months together, for half the charge as formerly also the planting of the roots ... / invented and published for the good of the poorer sort by John Forster.
1664
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England's happiness increased or, A sure and easy remedie against succeeding dear years by a plantation of the roots called potatoes, whereof (with the addition of wheat flower) excellent, good and wholesome bread may be made, every year, eight or nine months together, for half the charge as formerly also the planting of the roots ... / invented and published for the good of the poorer sort by John Forster.
Created/published
London : Printed for A. Seile, over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1664.
Description
[6], 30 pages ; 18 cm
Associated name
Forster, John, gent, author.
Seile, Anne, -1678, publisher.
Seile, Anne, -1678, publisher.
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Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), F1601
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
270162
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "The first & only 3dition of this extremely rare study of the potato by John Forster, and how it can provide for the people of England, “in the greatest times of Dearth and Scarcity, [so they] may have excellent, good and wholesome Bread, and other kinds of Food, for their Families, at as cheap Rates, as now in times of Plenty.” Ordered from Ben Kinmont, D 9191, 2018-03-27, email quote. Purchase made possible by The Charles W. Engelhard Acquisitions Fund. Purchase made possible by The Colt Acquisitions Fund. Purchase made possible by The K. Frank and Joycelyn C. Austen Acquisitions Endowment.
Folger accession
270162