The English husbandman
Subtitle: drawne into two bookes, and each booke into two parts ...
Contributors: Matthewes, Augustine, printer; Norton, John, -approximately 1640, printer; Sheares, William, -1662, bookseller
Edition: Newlie reviewed, corrected, and inlarged / by the 1st author, G.M.
Publisher: Printed for William Sheares, and are to be sold at his shops ...
Published: 1635
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Agriculture; Early works to 1800; Gardening; Fishing; Cockfighting
Other titles: Pleasures of princes.; Good mens recreations.
Notes: Second part has separate t.p.: The second booke of the English husbandman : contayning the ordering of the kitchin-garden ... ; whereunto is added a treatise, called Good mens recreation ... London : Printed by Iohn Norton for William Sheares ..., 1635.

Third part has special t.p.: The pleasures of princes, or, Good mens recreations : containing a discourse of the generall art of fishing ... together with the choyce, ordring, breeding, and dyeting of the fighting cock ... London : Printed by Iohn Norton, for William Sheares ..., 1635.

Dedication signed: Gervase Markham.

First part printed by Augustine Matthewes (cf. STC).

Part 1 was first published as STC 17355, parts 2 and 3 as STC 17356.

STC (2nd ed.) 17357.

Kress Lib. 509.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) The first part contayning the knowledge of husbandly duties, the nature of all sorts of soiles within this kingdome, the manner of tillage, the diversity of ploughes, and all other instruments; title: The second part containing the art of planting, grafting, and gardening, the use of the vine, the hopgarden, and the preservation of all sorts of fruits, the draught of all sorts of knots, mazes, and other ornaments.