A Collection of letters for the improvement of husbandry & trade..
Houghton, John,1640-1705.
London, : Printed for John Lawrence, at the Angel in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange,
1681[-1684]..
Editor and principal contributor: John Houghton.
Imprint from colophon; imprints include dates.
Issues dated according to Lady Day dating.
Imprints vary; from [v. 1] no. 6 is added: "printed by J[ohn]. Gain, for the author"; Lawrence's name is variously spelled; other imprint names include: Moses Pitt, William Cadman, Dorman Newman, Robert Clavel.
Each issue has content note below date line.
With continuous pagination from issue to issue in each volume.
Collected in two volumes, each with general title page; v. 1 dated 1681; v. 2 dated 1683 [i.e. 1684]. Vol. 2, no. 1 lacks individual title page, has general title page to the volume instead.
Includes essays on farming, money and trade, commodity prices, notices of books relating to agriculture. Vol. 1, no. 15 consists of lists of imports, exports and ship movements in and out of London from Feb. 1683-March 1684.
Nelson and Seccombe
NCBEL
Crane & Kaye
ESTC
Vol. 1, no. 2 was published in two editions.
Vol. 1 includes 15 numbers: Sept. 8 1681-Apr. 25 1683.
Numbering of issues in v. 2 begins with no. 2.
Vol. 2, no. 1- 2 lack dates.
Publication irregular; gap between v. 2, no. 5 (Jan. 29, 1683 [i.e. 1684]) and v. 2, no. 6 (June 16, 1684).
No more published.
Volume 1 has subject index in no. 15.
Agriculture