Abstract
TUSSER'S book was written in the middle of the sixteenth century and ran through many editions, mostly in the nature of enlargements. The first, 1557, consists of a “hundreth good pointes of husbandrie”. To this in 1571 were added a “Beleef”(creed), “a hundrethe good pointes of Huswifry, and divers proper lessens for housholders”. In the 1573 edition, the hundred good “pointes of husbandrie and huswifry” had each become five hundred, and lessons on gardening, “hopps and other needeful matters”, with an abstract before every month, were subjoined. Here first appeared the autobiography of Tusser—in verse. The last edition issued in the author's life-time was that of 1580, but from time to time reprints have appeared.
Thomas Tusser 1557 Floruit: his Good Points of Husbandry.
Dorothy Hartley. Pp. 195. (London: Country Life, Ltd., 1931.) 21s. net.
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G., E. A Classic of Farming. Nature 129, 348–349 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129348a0
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