Systema agriculturæ : the mystery of husbandry discovered. Treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices... . With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession. To which is added Kalendarium rusticum: or, The husbandmans monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. And Dictionarium rusticum: or, The interpretation of rustick terms. The whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practise. The fourth edition carefully corrected and amended, with one whole section added, and many large and useful additions throughout the whole work. By J.W. Gent.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Worlidge, John, active 1669-1698.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1962:22.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--England--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

England.

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered pages, 72, 83-262 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 264-326 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Systema agriculturæ being the mystery of husbandry discovered and laid open.

Kalendarium rusticum: or, Monthly directions for the husbandman.

Monthly directions for the husbandman.

Dictionarium rusticum; or, The interpretations and significations of several rustick terms used in several places of England.

Interpretations and significations of several rustick terms used in several places of England.

Place of Publication:

London : printed, and are to be sold by John Taylor, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M DC XCVIII. [1698]

Notes:

J.W. = John Worlidge.

With added engraved title page reading: Systema agriculturæ being the mystery of husbandry discovered and laid open by I.W.

"An explanation of the frontispiece" (in verse, printed on verso) is bound before engraved title page.

"Kalendarium rusticum: or, Monthly directions for the husbandman" and "Dictionarium rusticum; or, The interpretations and significations of several rustick terms used in several places of England" have separate title pages dated 1687; register and pagination are continuous.

Includes index and alphabetical table.

Advertisement on verso of final leaf.

Text is continuous despite pagination.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1989. 1 microfilm reel 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1962:22). s1989 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) W3602A

OCLC:

55725248