The profitable art of // gardening : now the third time // set forth : to which is added muche // necessarie matter, and a number of secretes // vvith the Phisicke helps // belonging to eache Hearbe, // and that easily pre- // pared. // To this is annexed tvvo proper treat- // ises, the one entituled, The maruellous // gouernenement, propertie, and be- // nefite of the Bees, with the rare secretes of the ho // nie and waxe. // and the other: the yearely coniectures meete // for husbandmen to know / Englished // by Thomas Hyll // Londoner // whereunto is newly added a treatise of the // Art of graffing and planting of trees.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528-

Series:

Making of the modern world

Making of the Modern World

Standardized Title:

Profitable arte of gardening

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Bee culture--Early works to 1800.

Bee culture.

Weather--Folklore--Early works to 1800.

Weather.

Herbs--Therapeutic use--Early works to 1800.

Herbs.

Herbs--Therapeutic use.

Weather--Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By Henry Bynneman, 1579.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Gothic type.

Two parts in 1 vol, each part with separate t.-p. and paging; many errors in paging. Titles within ornamental borders.

Pt. 2 has title: A profitable instruction of the perfite ordering of bees, with the mareullous nature, propertie, and gouernemente of them: and the neccessarie vses both of their Honie and waxe, seruing diuersly, as well in inward as outward causes. Gathered out of the best writers. To which is annexed a proper treatise, intituled: Certaine husbandly coniectures of dearth and plentie for euer, and other matters also meete for Husbandmen to knowe, &c. By Thomas Hyll Londoner. Imprinted at London, by Henrie Bynneman. Anno. 1579.

Each part has list of authors from whose works these treatises were comp. and tr.

Signatures: pt. 1, A⁴, C-X⁴; pt. 2, Aa-Nn⁴, O².

Probably imperfect, sig. B wanting. In the Bibliotheca Lindesiana catalogue of the printed books, 1910, v. 2, a copy of the 1574 edition is described as having a table of contents (sig. "B").

"A profitable instruction of the perfite ordering of bees ... To which is annexed a proper treatise intituled: Certaine husbandly coniectures of dearth and plentie for euer ..." has special title page.

Reproduction of original from Beinecke Library, Yale University.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 00206.

Includes lists of authors consulted.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. s2005 miunns

OCLC:

65329220

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.