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The second booke of the English husbandman : Contayning the ordering of the kitchin-garden, and the planting of strange flowers: the breeding of all manner of cattell. Together with the cures, the feeding of cattell, the ordering both of pastures and meddow-ground: with the vse both of high-wood and vnder-wood. Whereunto is added a treatise, called Good mens recreation: contayning a discourse of the generall art of fishing, with the angle, and otherwise; and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together vvith the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyeting of the fighting cocke. A worke neuer written before by any author. By G.M.
LIBRA STC 17356a
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Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel 813:13.
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 813:13.
- Standardized Title:
- English husbandman. Part 2-3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fishing--England--Early works to 1800.
- Fishing.
- Agriculture--England--Early works to 1800.
- Agriculture.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 56, 59-205, that is, 105 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 2 unnumbered pages, 51 pages, 3 unnumbered pages
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Other Title:
- English husbandman. Part 2-3.
- Pleasures of princes, or Good mens recreations.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in St. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1615.
- Notes:
- G.M. = Gervase Markham.
- Printer's name from STC.
- "The pleasures of princes, or Good mens recreations", a prose paraphrase with additions of "The secrets of angling" by John Dennys, has separate dated title page, pagination, and register.
- The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A"; the last leaf is blank.
- P. 105 misnumbered 205.
- A variant (STC 17356) has title pages dated 1614.
- Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
- Part 1 only.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1959. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 813:13). s1959 miun a
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 17356a.
- OCLC:
- 61370715
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