Artachthos, or, A new booke declaring the assise or weight of bread
Subtitle: not onely by troy weight, according to the law, but by avoirdupois weight the common weight of England at what price soever, not exceeding five pound the quarter of wheate, shall be sold in the market and conteining divers orders and articles made and set forth by the right honourable the Lords and others of his Majesties most honourable privie Councell, for the making and assising of all sorts of bread lawfull and vendible, within this realme ... whereunto is prefixed a briefe and plaine introduction to the art of numeration ... And lastly hereunto is added. A true relation or collection of the most remarkeable dearths and famines which have happened in England since the comming in of William the Conquerour, as also the rising and falling of the price of wheate and other graine, with the severall occasions thereof
Series: Early English books online; Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 689; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed by E[dward] G[riffine] and R. B[ishop] and are to be sold [at ye stationers shops, or at ye chamber of Iohn Penkethman .. in Simonds Inn in Chancerie lane] according to the direction in the frontispice
Published: 1638
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Bakers; Early works to 1800; Bakeries; Bread; Standards; Famines
Other titles: Artachthos.; New booke declaring the assise or weight of bread.
Notes: Dedication signed: John Penkethman.

Added t.p., engraved, has imprint: London : Printed by R. Bishop & Edward Griffine, and are to be sold at the stationers shops, or at the chamber of Iohn Penkethman ..., 1638.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 00689.

Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 689.

STC (2nd ed.) 19598.

With the label of J. C. Williams.

Presentation copy, with an inscription (unsigned) on the fly-leaf.

Full calf gilt.