Five hundred points of good husbandry / by Thomas Tusser ; with an introduction by Sir Walter Scott and a benediction by Rudyard Kipling incorporated in a foreword by E.V. Lucas.
Thomas Tusser (1524?-1580)
Category
Books
Date
1931
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3104767
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, [2], 336 p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 27 cm. With a preliminary blank leaf. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper: "pub at £5 5 0 / now £1 15 0". Bookseller's pencil code on title page verso: "y/e/h". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: 'Henry Sotheran Ltd, / Booksellers / 43 Piccadilly, London, W,1'. Binding: Twentieth-century full hermitage calf; five raised bands; black fillets on spine; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Points of good husbandry'; brown ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Thomas Tusser (1524?-1580), author Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), author Edward Verrall Lucas (1868-1938), author Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), author