Foure bookes of husbandrie
By: 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, grafting, and planting, with the antiquitie and commendation thereof. ; Newly Englished and increased by Barnabe Googe, esquire
Contributors: Wight, J. (John), bookseller; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594; Eliot's Court Press
Publisher: Printed [by Eliot's Court Press] for Iohn Wight
Published: 1586
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Agriculture; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Fovre bookes of hvsbandrie
Work titles: Rei rusticae libri quatuor
Notes: Translation of: Rei rusticae libri quatuor.

Signatures: 4to: pi² *-**⁴ A-Z⁸ & ⁸ 2A².

Printer's name from STC.

Leaf **8 is blank.

"Olde English rules for purchasing lands": leaf [1] at end.

With woodcut coat of arms with initials B.G. (Barnabe Googe?)--on title page verso.

Colophon (with printer's device of John Wight, Cf. McKerrow, Printers' and publishers' devices, 205): Imprinted at London for Iohn Wight, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the great North doore of Paules. Anno Domini. 1586.

A1 recto has a 9-line arabesque M initial. A variant has A1 recto with a 6-line M initial with bird and quires A-F a remainder from the 1577 edition (STC 13197).

Rare Book copy:  A1 recto has a 9-line arabesque M initial.

Rare Book copy: First 12 leaves and final leaf wanting.

Includes index.

Title-page, prelininary and concluding leaves lacking.

Typographical affinity is closer to the 1586 edition (cf. microfilm of Harvard copy) than to any other compared, including all editions listed in the Short title catalogue. Following l. 48 the similarity is close; at this point in the 1586 edition the type of the running head changes from italic to roman, found throughout in this and later editions.

Catalogue of the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature, 244

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 13198

Fussell, G.E. Old English farming books, p. 12

English short title catalogue (ESTC), S103977