Beschreibung:

'N. F.' The Husbandmans fruitfull Orchard Shewing Divers rare new secrets for the true Ordering of all sortes of fruite in their due seasons. Also how your encrease and profite maie bee much more then heertofore, and yet your charge and labour the same. With the manner of gathering all kindes of fruite aswel stone-fruite as other, and how they are to be ordered in packing, carrying, & conveying them by land or by water ... Never before published, imprinted for Roger Jackson, and are to bee sold at his shop in Fleet-street neere the conduit, 1609, A2 B-D4, E2, title, Epistle to the Reader (signed N.F.), and 28 pages of text (the main text printed in black letter), single large woodcut initial, and single woodcut head-piece and tail-piece, light soiling to title, all edges gilt, inside gilt dentelles, 19th century straight-grained green full morocco by Riviere, some handling marks, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, small 4to (Qty: 1) Provenance: William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909; bookplate to front pastedown with motto Victoria Concordia Crescit); sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of the Magnificent Library of Choice and Valuable Books & Manuscripts, the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, 3-5 December 1908 and 24-27 March 1909. ESTC S105557; Henrey 144; STC 10652. Rare, a variant of the 1608 reissue of The Fruiterers Secrets, which was first issued in 1604, and sometimes attributed to Gervase Markham. ESTC locates only two copies in America (Folger and Huntington).