Meager, Leonard

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 USD

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Description

The Mystery of Husbandry: Or, Arable, Pasture and Wood-land Improved... To Which Is Added, The Countryman’s Almanack. London: Printed by W. Onley, for Henry Nelme, 1697
paper, ink, leather

12mo (6 x 3 1/4 in.; 152 x 83 mm). Engraved folding plate of farming implements, title within double-ruled border, 7 pages of publisher's advertisements at the end; A3 slit along inner margin, browned throughout, minor marginal worming in upper outside corners, dampstaining in lower inside corners of quires F–H. Eighteenth-century polished biscuit calf paneled gilt, the spine in six compartments, green and red morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers; spine dry and worn.

Literature

Wing 1573A; ESTC R32066; Henrey 246

Catalogue Note

First edition, first issue. Meager was gardener to Sir Philip Hollman, at Warkworth in Northamptonshire.