translated by Richard Surflet, edited and augmented by Gervase Markham, third edition in English, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, lacks initial and final blanks, title with author's English name in French in neat early ink, a few other small marginal ink lines and scribbles, contemporary ink diagrams to A4 verso, short tear to foot of 2V5 and 3E6, mostly marginal, but encroaching with 2 or 3 lines of text in both instances, no loss, a few stains and spots, 19th century half calf by C.Winstanley of Manchester, upper cover detaching, lower joint starting, spine with repaired and slight loss at foot, rubbed, [Bitting p.146-147; Fussell p.13; Goldsmiths 451; Hunt 202; Kress 353; Poynter 31.1.; Schwerdt I, 166 (first English edition); STC 10549; Vicaire 345 (French editions)], folio, Printed by Adam Islip for John Bull, 1616. *** The first edition edited by Markham. As well as discussing the principles of farming and the layout and surveying of farms it includes chapters on herbs, vegetables, bread, distillation, wines, cider, hunting and falconry.: Radcliffe (engraved bookplate); W.R. Grace (lithographed bookplate).
translated by Richard Surflet, edited and augmented by Gervase Markham, third edition in English, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, lacks initial and final blanks, title with author's English name in French in neat early ink, a few other small marginal ink lines and scribbles, contemporary ink diagrams to A4 verso, short tear to foot of 2V5 and 3E6, mostly marginal, but encroaching with 2 or 3 lines of text in both instances, no loss, a few stains and spots, 19th century half calf by C.Winstanley of Manchester, upper cover detaching, lower joint starting, spine with repaired and slight loss at foot, rubbed, [Bitting p.146-147; Fussell p.13; Goldsmiths 451; Hunt 202; Kress 353; Poynter 31.1.; Schwerdt I, 166 (first English edition); STC 10549; Vicaire 345 (French editions)], folio, Printed by Adam Islip for John Bull, 1616. *** The first edition edited by Markham. As well as discussing the principles of farming and the layout and surveying of farms it includes chapters on herbs, vegetables, bread, distillation, wines, cider, hunting and falconry.: Radcliffe (engraved bookplate); W.R. Grace (lithographed bookplate).
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