Fiue hundred 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, corrected, better ordered, and newly augmented to a fourth part more, with diuers other lessons, as a diet for the fermer, of the properties of winds, planets, hops, herbes, bees, and approoued remedies for sheepe and cattle, with many 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 any matter conteined in the same. Newly set foorth by Thomas Tusser Gentleman, seruant to the honorable Lord Paget of Beaudesert.
1580
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Fiue hundred 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, corrected, better ordered, and newly augmented to a fourth part more, with diuers other lessons, as a diet for the fermer, of the properties of winds, planets, hops, herbes, bees, and approoued remedies for sheepe and cattle, with many 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 any matter conteined in the same. Newly set foorth by Thomas Tusser Gentleman, seruant to the honorable Lord Paget of Beaudesert.
Uniform title
Hundreth good pointes of husbandrie
Created/published
Imprinted at London : By Henrie Denham [beeing the assigne of William Seres] dwelling in Pater noster Row, at the signe of the Starre, 1580.
Description
[2], 89, [1] leaves ; (4to)
Associated name
Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580, author.
Note
An enlarged edition of "A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie", first published in 1557.
In verse.
"Beeing the assigne of William Seres" from colophon.
The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A.j." with ornament.
Signatures: A-Y⁴ 2A⁴.
Imprimatur at end of colophon: Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis.
In verse.
"Beeing the assigne of William Seres" from colophon.
The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A.j." with ornament.
Signatures: A-Y⁴ 2A⁴.
Imprimatur at end of colophon: Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis.
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available.
ESTC staff note
Blank from F.S. Ferguson notes. Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999. Fooles and Fricassees (catalog p. 58)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening:Closed and upright.
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), 24380
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S118718
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S118718
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 24380
Folger-specific note
cs175. Sprinkled calf binding; re-backed. Wanting the blank leaf. MS. c18 book and binding price, dated "June 1782." MS. markings. MS. note on 2A4v dated "3⁰ die Jul: / 1664," unsigned, and beginning: "In Epitaph upon ye Author, who lyeth buried / in St. Mildreds Church, London / Heere Thomas Tusser clad in Earth doth Lye / ..." Mutilated and backed at head throughout, affecting headlines. 2A2,3,4 are mutilated and repaired, with no loss of text. Provenance: inscribed on t.p.: "Jo: Daius [Davis?]"; collated at Quartich by E. Dring, July 5, 188[1?]