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The English Husbandman. The first Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of every Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments belonging thereto. Together With The Art of Planting, Grafting, and Gardening after our latest and rarest fashion. A worke never written before by any Author: and now newly compiled for the benefit of this Kingdome
by Markham, Gervaise
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About This Item
London: Printed by T.S. for John Browne, and are to be sold at his shop in in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard, 1613. 1st Edition. Limp vellum. Good +. 4to., 18cm.; 346pp., missing blank front fly leaf and G1 and G4, G4 is the rear blank fly leaf with no loss of text; 7 text illustrations; Contemporary limp vellum binding with inked author, title and date to spine. Japanese tissue repair applied to several pages, including title. Front vellum cover lined. Contains a few small contemporary manuscript marginalia/notations on rear flyleaf, including a drawing of a rooster and previous owners name (Thomas Wellington). Vellum stiffened and pages show soiling, top-edge shows coal dust. Presented in a full-calf, blind-tooled clamshell with gilt lettering. The English Husbandman includes the first layout of an English house to appear in print. (Cooper) (Fussell I).
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- J. A. Lascelles & Sons
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- Title
- The English Husbandman. The first Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of every Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments belonging thereto. Together With The Art of Planting, Grafting, and Gardening after our latest and rarest fashion. A worke never written before by any Author: and now newly compiled for the benefit of this Kingdome
- Author
- Markham, Gervaise
- Format/Binding
- Limp vellum
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by T.S. for John Browne, and are to be sold at his shop in in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1613
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J. A. Lascelles & Sons
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About J. A. Lascelles & Sons
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