Item #2893 As Well for The Champion or Open Country, as for The Woodland or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery, Being a Calendar of rural and domestic Economy, For Every Month in the Year; And exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in The Sixteenth Century; A New Edition. Thomas Tusser.

As Well for The Champion or Open Country, as for The Woodland or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery, Being a Calendar of rural and domestic Economy, For Every Month in the Year; And exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in The Sixteenth Century; A New Edition

London: Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1812. Hardcover. 338 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. First published in 1557, then modified and expanded in 1573; Tusser creates a calendar of information and instruction for the farming year. The latter section of huswifery reads like a poem. Interior clean. Rebound in marble boards and tan calf with raised bands. Bookseller's label: Elisabeth Woodurn, Booknoll. [BITING 468]. Half bound, marble boards and tan calf. Very good. Item #2893

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