1586 Fiue hundreth pointes of good husbandrie : as well for the champion or open countrie, as also for the woodland or seuerall, mixed in euerie month with huswiferie, ouer and besides the booke of huswiferie. Newlie set foorth by Thomas Tusser gentleman. Corrected, better ordered, and newlie augmented to a fourth part more, with diuers other lessons, as a diet for the farmer, of the properties of winds, planets, hops, herbs, bees, and approoued remedies for sheepe and cattell, with manie other matters both profitable and not vnpleasant for the reader. Also a table of husbandrie at the beginning of this booke: and another of huswiferie at the end, for the better and easier finding of anie matter conteined in the same.
1586
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1586 Fiue hundreth pointes of good husbandrie : as well for the champion or open countrie, as also for the woodland or seuerall, mixed in euerie month with huswiferie, ouer and besides the booke of huswiferie. Newlie set foorth by Thomas Tusser gentleman. Corrected, better ordered, and newlie augmented to a fourth part more, with diuers other lessons, as a diet for the farmer, of the properties of winds, planets, hops, herbs, bees, and approoued remedies for sheepe and cattell, with manie other matters both profitable and not vnpleasant for the reader. Also a table of husbandrie at the beginning of this booke: and another of huswiferie at the end, for the better and easier finding of anie matter conteined in the same.
Uniform title
Hundreth good pointes of husbandrie
Created/published
At London : Printed in the now dwelling house of Henrie Denham in Aldersgate street at the signe of the Starre, [1586]
Description
160, 143-145, [1] p. ; (4to)
Associated name
Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580, author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Huth Library, former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Huth Library, former owner.
Note
Another edition, enlarged, of: "A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie", published in 1557.
In verse.
Signatures: A-K⁸ L².
Imprimatur at foot of colophon: Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis ad imprimendum solum.
In verse.
Signatures: A-K⁸ L².
Imprimatur at foot of colophon: Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis ad imprimendum solum.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
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), 24382
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S100634
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S100634
Genre/form
Privileges (permissions)
Imprimaturs.
Imprimaturs.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 24382
Folger-specific note
HH206/18. Brown goatskin binding, blind-tooled, with all edges gilt; signed by J. Clarke. Some deckle edges. Faded MS. markings. The title leaf is re-margined. Leaves H1,2,7, and 8 are trimmed and inlaid (possibly from another copy). Sig.L mutilated and repaired at head, affecting headlines. Provenance: Huth library copy (the bookplate apparently removed); Pickering & Chatto, London, sale, Aug. 1920, lot. 3468; Harmsworth copy