Foure bookes of husbandrie, /
collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius, councellor to the high and mightie prince, the Duke of Cleue: ; containing the whole art and trade of husbandrie, gardening, grafting, and planting, with the antiquitie and commendation thereof. ; Newly Englished and increased by Barnabe Googe, esquire.

Description

Main Author

Heresbach, Conrad, 1496-1576.

Related Names

Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594, trans.
Wight, J. (John), bookseller.
Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library
Eliot's Court Press

Language(s)

English

Published

At London, : Printed [by Eliot's Court Press] for Iohn Wight., 1586.

Subjects

Agriculture > Agriculture / Early works to 1800.
Bookplates (Provenance)
Printers' devices (Publishing) > Printers' devices (Publishing) / Great Britain > Printers' devices (Publishing) / Great Britain / 16th century.

Note

Includes index.
A1 recto has a 9-line arabesque M initial. A variant has A1 recto with a 6-line M initial with bird and quires A-F a remainder (?) from the 1577 edition (STC 13197).
Colophon (with printer's device of John Wight, Cf. McKerrow, Printers' and publishers' devices, 205): Imprinted at London for Iohn Wight, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the great North doore of Paules. Anno Domini. 1586.
With woodcut coat of arms with initials B.G. (Barnabe Googe?) on title page verso.
"Olde English rules for purchasing lands": leaf [1] at end.
Leaf **8 is blank.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: 4to: pi² *-**⁴ A-Z⁸ &⁸ 2A².
Translation of: Rei rusticae libri quatuor.

Physical Description

[12], 193, [1] leaves : coat of arms (woodcut) ; 19 cm. (4to in 8s)

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