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The second booke of the English husbandman : Containing the ordering of the kitchin-garden, and the planting of strange flowers: the breeding of all manner of cattell. Together with the cures, the feeding of cattell, the ordering both of pastures and meddow-ground: with the use both of high-wood and under-wood. Whereunto is added a treatise, called Good mens recreation: containing a discourse of the general art of fishing, with the angle, and otherwise; and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together with the choice, ordering, breeding, and dieting of the fighting cocke. A worke never written before by any author. By G.M
English husbandman. Part 2-3
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- Secrets of angling
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- London : Printed by T[homas] S[nodham] for John Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in St. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1615
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- [16], 56, 59-205 [i.e. 105], [1]; [2], 51, [3] p
- G.M. = Gervase Markham.
- Printer's name from STC.
- "The pleasures of princes, or Good mens recreations", a prose paraphrase with additions of "The secrets of angling" by John Dennys, has separate dated title page, pagination, and register.
- The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A"; the last leaf is blank.
- P. 105 misnumbered 205.
- A variant (STC 17356) has title pages dated 1614.
- Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
- Part 1 only.
- STC (2nd ed.) 17356a.
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.