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Agriculture.- Heresbach (Conrad) Foure Bookes of Husbandrie . . . Newly Englished and increased by Barnabe Googe, third edition in English, mostly black letter, woodcut device on title, full-page woodcut arms on verso, woodcut illustration, printer's device on verso of final leaf, initials, head- and tail-pieces, lacking final preliminary (**)4 (?blank), title with ink scribblings and with loss to upper corner, not affecting text, holes or burn holes to (*)2, B8, Q8 and S2 with loss to a few letters, small holes or burn holes to C5, D8, G2, M6 and R1 affecting 1 or 2 letters, a few ff. browned, the odd spot, still a very good copy, bookplate to pastedown, later speckled calf, sympathetically rebacked, [STC 13198; Fussell I, p.12], small 4to, for John Wight, 1586

⁂ 'This work, written in the form of a discussion between four persons, aims at collecting all the available information from classical and Biblical sources, and adding to that the information that more modern writers had gleaned, together with the experience of various friends of the author, who may have been practical farmers as he claims, although several of them seem to have been primarily soldiers who held various government posts.' - Fussell.

Provenance: John Thelwall (ink ownership inscription to title); The Hon. Booth Grey (bookplate).