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
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3105307
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 338, [2] p.; . 24.5cm.. Pagination varies; 36, xl, 338, [2]p. with the first 36 and final [2] pages matching Peckover's description. - Page 236 is misnumbered 23.. Provenance: Crest bookplate: "William Gibbs.", with motto "En Dios Mi Amparo y Esperanza." [i.e. William Gibbs (1790-1875)]. - Ms on pastedown: "Large Paper".. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter green morocco; marbled boards; gold-tooled spine.
Makers and roles
Thomas Tusser (1524?-1580) William Fordyce Mavor (1758-1837)