Five hundred points of good husbandry as well for the champion or open country, as for the woodland or several; . together with a book of huswifery, being a calendar of rural and domestic economy, for every month in the year; and exhibiting a picture of the agriculture, customs, and manners of England, in the sixteenth century.
Thomas Tusser (1524?-1580)
Category
Books
Date
1812
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3105306
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 338, [2] p.; . 24.5cm.. Not indigenous. Meade collection. manuscript pencil markings to text.. Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Nineteenth century armorial bookplate, unsigned, lettered: "Rev. The Honble. Sidney Meade". Ink stamp: "Frankleigh House Library".. Binding: Nineteenth century full morocco, blind tooled and rolled to form centre panel with decorative border; edges and inner edges, single gilt fillet; sewn on five raised cords; all edges gilt; binder's ink stamp: Roger de Coverly.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade in 1999, and formerly from the library of Sidney Meade (1839-1917), Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
Makers and roles
Thomas Tusser (1524?-1580) William Fordyce Mavor (1758-1837)