Lot 357
Husbandry.- Meager (Leonard) The Mystery of Husbandry: or, Arable, Pasture and Wood-land Improved, first edition, first issue, W. Onley, for Henry Nelme, 1697.
Estimate: £400 - 600
Description
Husbandry.- Meager (Leonard) The Mystery of Husbandry: or, Arable, Pasture and Wood-land Improved, first edition, first issue, folding engraved frontispiece (trimmed at foot affecting letter of caption), 7pp. advertisements at end, some very small marginal worming to first half, very occasionally into text (mainly to Sig. B), occasional light staining, foxed, later calf, small loss to spine head, rubbed, [Fussell p.77-79; Henrey 246; McDonald pp.148-151; Perkins 1177 (lacking frontispiece); Wing M1573A], 12mo, W. Onley, for Henry Nelme, 1697.
⁂ Meager was gardener to Sir Philip Hollman, at Warkworth in Northamptonshire.
Description
Husbandry.- Meager (Leonard) The Mystery of Husbandry: or, Arable, Pasture and Wood-land Improved, first edition, first issue, folding engraved frontispiece (trimmed at foot affecting letter of caption), 7pp. advertisements at end, some very small marginal worming to first half, very occasionally into text (mainly to Sig. B), occasional light staining, foxed, later calf, small loss to spine head, rubbed, [Fussell p.77-79; Henrey 246; McDonald pp.148-151; Perkins 1177 (lacking frontispiece); Wing M1573A], 12mo, W. Onley, for Henry Nelme, 1697.
⁂ Meager was gardener to Sir Philip Hollman, at Warkworth in Northamptonshire.