The English improver improved . or the survey of husbandry surveyed. Discovering the improveableness of all lands: some to be under a double and treble others under a five or six fould. And many under a Tenn fould, yea some under a twenty fould improvement. By Wa: Blith. A lover of ingenuity.
Walter Blith
Category
Books
Date
1653
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3127189
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],274,[12]p., [2] plates, [1] folding . ill.. . 4to.. Not indigenous. Head of engraved title page trimmed away. Provenance: Seventeenth-century (?) inscription on title page (illegible). Eighteenth- or nineteenth-century ink shelfmarks on flyleaves. Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century bookplate lettered William Charles De Meuron. Earl Fitzwilliam. [i.e. William Charles de Meuron Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943)] Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Loosely inserted: slip of manuscript notes by Norris. Binding: Seventeenth-century full sheep over boards; double blind fillets and quarter-fillets; gilt spine tools; brown spine label with title 'Blith Husbandry'.
Makers and roles
Walter Blith