Foure bookes of husbandrie, collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius, councellor to the high and mightie prince, the Duke of Cleue: containing the whole art and trade of husbandrie, gardening, graffing, and planting, with the antiquitie and commendation thereof. Newly Englished, and increased by Barnabe Googe, Esquire.
Heresbach, Conrad,1496-1576.
Googe, Barnabe,1540-1594,trans.
At London : Printed [at Eliot's Court Press] for Iohn Wight,
1586.
A translation of: Rei rusticae libri quatuor.
Identification of printer from STC.
Includes index.
"Olde English rules, for purchasing lande", last leaf.
A1r has 9-line arabesque M. Variant: quires A-F are a remainder (?) from the 1577 edition; A1r has 6-line M with bird.
Signatures: ()⁴ (*)⁴ (**)⁴ A-Z⁸ [et]⁸ 2A².
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
STC (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Agriculture