1931 Thomas Tusser: His Good Points of Husbandry

Description

Early Edition, First Edition

First Ed Thus, being a facsimile of Tusser's early works with notes from the editor.

In the original unclipped dust wrapper. 

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and various full-page and in-text black-and-white illustrations. 

This is a wonderful facsimile reproduction of Thomas Tusser's 'A Hundreth' and 'Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry'. This work defended the garden as the 'domain of the housewife', and has been considered notable for its defense of enclosures. The work was one of the best selling poetry books of the Elizabethan Age', and combines a mix of homely instructions with observations on rural life and country customs. 

Contents include an editor's introduction, a family tree, 'The Life of Tusser', and 'A Hundred' and 'Five hundred Good Points of Husbandry'. The text ends with the 'Last will of Thomas Tusser' and 'Epitaph'. 

Thomas Tusser (1524-1580) was an English poet and farmer, best known for 'A Hundredth Good Pointes of Husbandrie'. 

Edited by Dorothy Hartley (1893-1985), an English social historian, illustrator, and author. She is particularly known for 'The Life and Work of the People of England', which was presented in six volumes. 

Collated, complete.