The profitable art of // gardening : now the third time // set forth : to which is added muche // necessarie matter, and a number of secretes // vvith the Phisicke helps // belonging to eache Hearbe, // and that easily pre- // pared. // To this is annexed tvvo proper treat- // ises, the one entituled, The maruellous // gouernenement, propertie, and be- // nefite of the Bees, with the rare secretes of the ho // nie and waxe. // and the other: the yearely coniectures meete // for husbandmen to know
Two parts in 1 vol, each part with separate t.-p. and paging; many errors in paging. Titles within ornamental borders.
Pt. 2 has title: A profitable instruction of the perfite ordering of bees, with the mareullous nature, propertie, and gouernemente of them: and the neccessarie vses both of their Honie and waxe, seruing diuersly, as well in inward as outward causes. Gathered out of the best writers. To which is annexed a proper treatise, intituled: Certaine husbandly coniectures of dearth and plentie for euer, and other matters also meete for Husbandmen to knowe, &c. By Thomas Hyll Londoner. Imprinted at London, by Henrie Bynneman. Anno. 1579.
Each part has list of authors from whose works these treatises were comp. and tr.
Signatures: pt. 1, A⁴, C-X⁴; pt. 2, Aa-Nn⁴, O².
Probably imperfect, sig. B wanting. In the Bibliotheca Lindesiana catalogue of the printed books, 1910, v. 2, a copy of the 1574 edition is described as having a table of contents (sig. "B").
"A profitable instruction of the perfite ordering of bees ... To which is annexed a proper treatise intituled: Certaine husbandly coniectures of dearth and plentie for euer ..." has special title page.
Master microform held by: ResP.
Includes lists of authors consulted.
Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 206
STC 13494
Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, 1974. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 206).