Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie.
Thomas Tusser (1524?-1580)
Category
Books
Date
1878
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3186328
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxi,[1],350,[2] p. ; 8vo. Bookseller’s ticket on pastedown: Sloane Bookshop, 2, Symons Street, Sloane Square, S.W.3. Pencil manuscript price on endpaper: 15/-. Rear endpaper pencil page references and occasional text marking. Loosely inserted: West Kent news sheet, December 1944, typescript, [2]p. Editor is V. Sackville-West. Includes note on Tusser, calling his poem a "sort of Land-girls' Bible". Provenance: endpaper inscribed: G. Addie; pastedown inscribed "V.N. / Long Barn" [i.e. Vita [Sackville-West] Nicolson, 1892-1962]. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper on boards; five false bands; gold lettered red spine label. Binder's stamp on pastedown: Maclehose, Glasgow.
Makers and roles
Thomas Tusser (1524?-1580) Thomas Tusser (1524?-1580) Sidney John Herrtage William H, Payne English Dialect Society