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Auction archive: Lot number 80

Agriculture.- Tusser (Thomas) Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, 1614.

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,257 - US$1,885
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 80

Agriculture.- Tusser (Thomas) Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, 1614.

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,257 - US$1,885
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Agriculture.- Tusser (Thomas) Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, as well for the champion, or open country, as also for the woodland, largely in black letter, title within typographical woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, title soiled and foreshortened along fore-edge, several corners repaired and restored, final f. laid-down with several repairs running into text, occasional foxing or browning, scribblings and markings in early hands, typed and ink inscriptions and printed notices tipped onto endpapers, bookplate to pastedown, 19th-century half calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, [cf. Fussell I, pp.8-9; STC 24389], [by Thomas Purfoot] for the Company of Stationers, 1614. ⁂ A rare early edition. Provenance: John Gerard (ink inscriptions dated 1753); Edwin Wilfrid Stanyforth (1861-1939, ink inscription to endpaper), President of the Royal Agricultural Society; Royal Agricultural Society (bookplate)

Auction archive: Lot number 80
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Agriculture.- Tusser (Thomas) Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, as well for the champion, or open country, as also for the woodland, largely in black letter, title within typographical woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, title soiled and foreshortened along fore-edge, several corners repaired and restored, final f. laid-down with several repairs running into text, occasional foxing or browning, scribblings and markings in early hands, typed and ink inscriptions and printed notices tipped onto endpapers, bookplate to pastedown, 19th-century half calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, [cf. Fussell I, pp.8-9; STC 24389], [by Thomas Purfoot] for the Company of Stationers, 1614. ⁂ A rare early edition. Provenance: John Gerard (ink inscriptions dated 1753); Edwin Wilfrid Stanyforth (1861-1939, ink inscription to endpaper), President of the Royal Agricultural Society; Royal Agricultural Society (bookplate)

Auction archive: Lot number 80
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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