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 / Englished // by Thomas Hyll // Londoner // whereunto is newly added a treatise of the // Art of graffing and planting of trees.
| Author/creator | Hill, Thomas |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Imprinted at London : By Henry Bynneman, 1579. |
| Description | 4 preliminary leaves, 152 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 92 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Available to subscribing institutions |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Profitable arte of gardening |
| General note | Gothic type. |
| General note | Two parts in 1 vol, each part with separate t.-p. and paging; many errors in paging. Titles within ornamental borders. |
| General note | 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. |
| General note | Each part has list of authors from whose works these treatises were comp. and tr. |
| General note | Signatures: pt. 1, A⁴, C-X⁴; pt. 2, Aa-Nn⁴, O². |
| General note | 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"). |
| General note | "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. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Beinecke Library, Yale University. |
| General note | Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 00206. |
| Bibliography note | Includes lists of authors consulted. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. |
| LCCN | nuc87302434 |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |