- 810
Tusser, Thomas
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, as well as for the Champion, or Open Countrie, as also for the Woodland, or Severall, Mixed in Everie Month with Huswiferie; Over and besides the Booke of Huswiferie, Corrected, Better Ordered, and Newly Augmented to a Fourth Part More; with Diuers other Lessons, as a Diet for the Fermer, of the Properties of Winds, Planets, Hops, Herbes, Bees; and Approoued Remedies for Sheepe and Cattle; with many other Matters both Profitable and not Unpleasant for the Reader. Also a Table of Husbandrie at the Beginning of this Booke; and another of Huswiferie at the End: for the Better and Easier Finding of any Matter Conteined in the Same. London: [Printed] by Henrie Denham [Colophon: Beeing the Assigne of William Seres], Dwelling in Pater Noster Row at the Signe of the Starre, 1580
- paper and ink
4to (7 x 5 1/4 in.; 178 x 133 mm). Title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 121; McKerrow 148), printer's woodcut device (McKerrow 211) on colophon leaf (2a4v), woodcut initials, closely read with underscoring and annotations in Gabriel Harvey's hand; lacks A1 (blank except for printer's ornament and signature A.j.), outer margin of title-page repaired, browned and stained throughout. White doeskin, double-fillet border, the spine in six compartments with raised bands; light surface mottling, small tear to foot of spine.
Provenance
Gabriel Harvey, 1545–1630 (signature and date of acquisition, 18 August 1580, on title-page) — Ownership inscription on front pastedown dated 1800 (inscription struck out and thus illegible) — Initials "R.U." on front free endpaper — Richard Heber (sale, Sotheby's, 23 December 1834, Part IV, lot 2829) — Sotheby's London, 3 July 1973, lot 221 (sold to) — Francis Edwards. acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 1992
Literature
STC 24380; ESTC S118718; J.C. Moore Smith, Harvey's Marginalia (1913), p. 85 (this copy recorded but not located and the notes not printed)
Condition
4to (7 x 5 1/4 in.; 178 x 133 mm). Title within woodcut border (McKerrow 148), printer's woodcut device on colophon leaf (2a4v), woodcut initials, closely read with underscoring and annotations in Gabriel Harvey's hand; lacks blank A1, outer margin of title-page repaired, browned and stained throughout. White doeskin, double-fillet border, the spine in six compartments with raised bands; light surface mottling, small tear to foot of spine.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
A later, substantially augmented edition of Tusser's popular manual, Gabriel Harvey's copy with his copious annotations and markings. The son of a yeoman-farmer and ropemarker at Saffron Waiden, Harvey took his share of work as a child on his father's farm. His annotated copy of Tusser is therefore of particular interest.
Harvey was a well-known Elizabethan writer, lecturer and critic, loosely associated with the literary circle around Sir Philip Sidney. He became a Professor of Rhetoric at Cambridge in 1574. His reputation suffered because of his attacks on the Earl of Oxford and his pamphlet feuds with satirists Robert Greene and Thomas Nashe. Retiring in 1598, Harvey devoted the rest of life to the study of literature, science and medicine.