Tusser, Thomas

1524?-1580

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry: As Well for the Champion or Open Countrey, as Also for the Woodland or Severall, Mixed in Every Moneth with Huswifery, Over and Besides the Booke of Huswifery.

Newly set forth. Corrected, better ordered, and newly augmented to a fourth part more. London: Printed by I. O. [John Okes] for the Company of Stationers, 1638. First ed. published in 1557 under title: A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie; enl. ed. first published 1573--Cf. Hunt 325. Printer's name from STC. References: STC 24392. Text heavily underlined and bracketed; ms. annotations in margins.

This is a book on agriculture written in verse and enjoyed for its humor and practical use.

Subjects: Agriculture; Home economics.

PAT-98


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