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MARKHAM, Gervase (1568?-1637). The English Husbandman [part 3: The Pleasures of Princes, or, Good mens Recreations]. London: [Augustine Mathewes and John Norton] for Henry Taunton, 1635.
3 parts, 4° (180 x 136mm). Woodcut illustrations and diagrams, initials and headpieces. With front blank bound after the title. (Occasional scattered spotting.) 18th-century half calf (spine rubbed, upper joints cracked, binder's blank detached). Provenance: James Clitheron, 1637 (title inscription) -- William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943, bookplate; by descent to:) -- William Henry Lawrence Peter, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (1910-1948; his sale, Sotheby's, 26 April 1948, lot 957).
THE FITZWILLIAM COPY. Second edition, first published in two separate parts 1613-14. Markham had by then fled London following the execution of his patron, the Earl of Essex, and started a new life as a tenant farmer on the estate of relatives in Huntingdonshire. Part 1 was first published as STC 17355, parts 2 and 3 as STC 173561. Part 3 consists of one discourse on angling, and another on the rearing of fighting-cocks: while the former is a prose paraphrase of Jackson's The Secrets of Angling, Poynter views the latter as an entirely original work. Poynter 21.2.a (noting a variant, STC 17357, identical but for the imprint of William Sheares); STC 17358.
3 parts, 4° (180 x 136mm). Woodcut illustrations and diagrams, initials and headpieces. With front blank bound after the title. (Occasional scattered spotting.) 18th-century half calf (spine rubbed, upper joints cracked, binder's blank detached). Provenance: James Clitheron, 1637 (title inscription) -- William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943, bookplate; by descent to:) -- William Henry Lawrence Peter, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (1910-1948; his sale, Sotheby's, 26 April 1948, lot 957).
THE FITZWILLIAM COPY. Second edition, first published in two separate parts 1613-14. Markham had by then fled London following the execution of his patron, the Earl of Essex, and started a new life as a tenant farmer on the estate of relatives in Huntingdonshire. Part 1 was first published as STC 17355, parts 2 and 3 as STC 173561. Part 3 consists of one discourse on angling, and another on the rearing of fighting-cocks: while the former is a prose paraphrase of Jackson's The Secrets of Angling, Poynter views the latter as an entirely original work. Poynter 21.2.a (noting a variant, STC 17357, identical but for the imprint of William Sheares); STC 17358.
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