Add this copy of Thomas Tusser 1557 Floruit His Good Points of Husbandry to cart. $41.92, good condition, Sold by Bookcase rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Carlisle, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1969 by Cedric Chivers.
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Good in Good jacket. 4to. Academic reprint. Jacket lightly rubbed, in library style plastic wrapper. Closed edges and prelims foxed, contents clean and firm.
Add this copy of Thomas Tusser 1557 Floruit: His Good Points of to cart. $82.60, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1931 by Country Life Limited.
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Not Stated. Very Good. A wonderful facsimile of Thomas Tusser's poetic work, which provides a 'homely mix of instructions' and observations on farming life, edited with notes by Dorothy Hartley. First thus. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and various full-page and in-text black-and-white illustrations. This is a wonderful facsimile reproduction of Thomas Tusser's 'A Hundreth' and 'Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry'. This work defended the garden as the 'domain of the housewife', and has been considered notable for its defense of enclosures. The work was one of the best selling poetry books of the Elizabethan Age', and combines a mix of homely instructions with observations on rural life and country customs. Contents include an editor's introduction, a family tree, 'The Life of Tusser', and 'A Hundred' and 'Five hundred Good Points of Husbandry'. The text ends with the 'Last will of Thomas Tusser' and 'Epitaph'. Written by Thomas Tusser, an English poet and farmer, best known for 'A Hundredth Good Pointes of Husbandrie'. Edited by Dorothy Hartley, an English social historian, illustrator, and author particularly known for 'The Life and Work of the People of England'. In the original quarter cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. Minor chipping to the board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Very Good.
