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Ref NoEFP/094/1614/12
Finding NumberA094/1614/12
TitleThe second booke of the English husbandman : Contayning the ordering of the kitchin-garden, and the planting of strange flowers: the breeding of all manner of cattell. Together with the cures, the feeding of cattell, the ordering both of pastures and meddow-ground: with the vse both of high-wood and vnder-wood. Whereunto is added a treatise, called Good mens recreation: contayning a discourse of the generall art of fishing, with the angle, and otherwise; and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together vvith the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyeting of the fighting cocke. A worke neuer written before by any author. By G.M
LevelItem
Date1614
DescriptionEnglish husbandman. Part 2-3; English husbandman; Secrets of angling; Pleasures of princes, or Good mens recreations; Secrets of angling
G.M. = Gervase Markham.; Printer's name from STC.; "The pleasures of princes, or Good mens recreations", a prose paraphrase with additions of "The secrets of angling" by John Dennys, has separate dated title page, pagination, and register.; The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A"; the last leaf is blank.; P. 105 misnumbered 205.; A variant (STC 17356a) has title pages dated 1615.; First part only; 832821.; English husbandman.; Pleasures of princes, or Good mens recreations.; Microfilm.; ESTCS112058.
AuthorMarkham, Gervase, 1568?-1637; Dennys, John, d. 1609
SubjectFishing -- England; Agriculture -- England
Physical Description[16], 56, 59-205 [i.e. 105], [1]; [2], 51, [3] p. ; 4j.
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLondon : Printed by T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1614.
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