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An olde thrift nevvly reuiued : VVherein is declared the manner of planting, preserving, and husbanding yong trees of diuers kindes for timber and fuell. And of sowing acornes, chesnuts, beech-mast, the seedes of elmes, ashen-keyes, &c. With the commodities and discommodities of inclosing decayed forrests, commons, and waste grounds. And also the vse of a small portable instrument for measuring of board, and the solid content and height of any tree standing. Discoursed in a dialogue betweene a surueyour, woodward, gentleman, and a farmer. Diuided into foure parts, by R.C.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Churche, Rooke.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tree planting--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
- Tree planting.
- Forests and forestry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
- Forests and forestry.
- Forests and forestry--Measurement--Early works to 1800.
- Forests and forestry--Measurement.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (6 unnumbered pages, 108 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, folded plate) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Olde thrift newly revived
- Olde thrift newly revived.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby] for Richard Moore, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstanes Churchyard, 1612.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- R.C. = Rooke Churche; sometimes also attributed to Robert Chambers and to R. Churton.
- Printer's name from STC.
- With two final contents leaves.
- B2 and D3 are cancels in most copies; D3r line 21 reads ".. odious to Farmers." Variant 1: cancellandum D3 reads "odious to Farmers as sharking Catch-poles ..". Variant 2: with an additional leaf signed "*" after the title page, containing a commendatory epistle to the reader initialled: A.D.
- Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 830:05) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd edition) 4923.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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