Agriculture.- Tusser (Thomas) Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie, as well for the champion, or open countrie, as also for the woodland, or seuerall, mixed in euerie month with huswiferie, black letter, woodcut tail-pieces and printer's device to final verso, lacking A1-B3 and I4 (including title, A1 blank apart from signature-mark), all but A1 and I4 provided in good facsimile, Aa1 upper corner torn and crudely repaired with loss of text (supplied in 20th century manuscript), sig. P lower corners torn and repaired with loss to printed sidenotes (just touching the odd letter of text), final f. strengthened verso (framing printer's device and colophon), occasional wormholes / small traces to inner gutters, occasionally just touching a letter, water-stained, some staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, later endpapers, 17th century calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments and with later red leather label, varnished, rubbed, [Fussell I, pp.8-9; STC 24380; ESTC S118718], small 4to, by Henrie Denham, dwelling in Pater noster Row, at the signe of the Starre, 1580. sold not subject to return.

⁂ Rare edition at auction. 'As McDonald says: 'The precepts of Tusser are excellent and show very much cool, collected sense, and at the early age in which he lived it was a grand conception of his mind to write upon agriculture in poetry.' (Fussell).