Shelfmark
Ga.4.16
Author
Uniform title
[Systema agriculturae]
Title
Systema agriculturæ, the mystery of husbandry discovered; : wherein is treated of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling planting sowing manuring ordering improving all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods, & coppices. And of all sorts of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new hays, cattel, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, &c. With an account of the several instruments and engines useful in this profession. To which is added, Kalendarium rusticum; or, The husbandmans monethly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, windes, rain, hail, thunder, &c. And Dictionarium rusticum: or, The interpretation of rustick terms. / Published for the common good, by J. W. Gent. The whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed by T. Johnson for Samuel Speed, near the Inner Temple Gate in Fleet-street., 1669.
Physical description
[32], 278, [6] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. (Fo.)
Note
Includes index.
Note
Advertisements on final leaf.
Note
A second part was published in 1689 (Wing W3597A).
Note
"Kalendarium rusticum" and "Dictionarium rusticum" each have separate title page, with imprint "printed in the year 1668", on leafs 2K2r and 2Q1r, respectively.
Note
With an added illustrated t.p. ([A]2r) with title: Systema Agriculturæ, being the mystery of husbandry discovered and laid open by J: W: engraved and signed" F. H. Van Houe scul. ... 1668". A1 contains "The explanation of the frontispiece." [i.e. added t.p.]
Note
J.W. = John Worlidge.
Note
Woodcut initials; head- and tail-pieces; marginal annotations; double rule at head of each page.
Citation/references note
Lawn, Brian. Catalogus Bibliotheca Lawnianae, p.172
Citation/references note
ESTC, R12813
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W3598
Provenance
Inscription on front flyleaf: Ino. Long.
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary mid brown calf; blind tooled double fillet frame with second vertical line an inch from spine; small arabesque cornerpieces; gold tooled zigzag tool on board edges; modern rebacking in sprinkled calf with blind tooled double fillet; older red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters and triple fillet reattached; five raised bands; brown and red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Ff.3.4.
Subject
Agriculture Terminology Early works to 1800.
Subject
Sericulture Early works to 1800.
Subject
Gardening Early works to 1800.
Subject
Agriculture Calendars Early works to 1800.
Subject
Bee culture Early works to 1800.
Subject
Agriculture Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Johnson, Thomas, fl. 1642 - 1677 printer.
Added entry--name
Speed, Samuel, ? - 1681 publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B46320