A COMPLEAT SYSTEM OF HUSBANDRY AND GARDENING or, the Gentleman's Companion, in the Business and Pleasures of Country Life.

London, printed for J. Pickard, next the Cock-Inn in Aldersgate-Street, A. Bettesworth at the Red-Lyon in Paternoster-Row, and E. Curll at the Dial and Bible in Fleetstreet, 1716.. TITLE CONTINUED: Shewing, I. The Several New and most Advantagious Ways of Tilling, Planting, Sowing, Manuring, Ordering, and Improving of all sorts of Gardens, Orchards, Meadows, Pastures, Corn-Lands, Woods, and Coppices. As also of Fruits; Corn, Grain, Pulse, New-Hays, Cattle, Fowl, Beasts, Bees, Silk-Worms, Fish, and Fish-Ponds. II. The Husbandman's Monthly Directions. Also the Prognosticks of Dearth, Scarcity, Plenty, Sickness, Heat, Cold, Frost, Snow, Winds, Rain, Hail, and Thunder. III. The Interpretation of Rustick Terms. With an account of the several Instruments and Engines used in this Profession, and exact Draughts thereof curiously Engraven on Copper. The whole collected from, and containing what is most valuable in all the books hitherto written upon this subject; with many New Experiments and Observations. Dedication signed: J. W., i.e. John Worlidge. In 3 parts, Kalendarium Rusticum and Dictionarium Rusticum both have separate title pages, 5th edition 1716. 8vo, approximately 190 x 110 mm, 7½ x 4½ inches, 1 folding engraved plate, pages: xxvi, [14], 1-504, 8, pages 497-504 duplicated. Bound in modern quarter calf over marbled boards, cream endpapers. Pale age-browning to title page, lower corners of pages 6-26 have brown stain, not affecting text, pale age-browning affecting margins and some text at the beginning upto page 1, pale age-browning and spotting affecting pages 449 to the end, main body of text clean. Originally published in 1669 as 'Systema agriculturæ, the mystery of husbandry discovered'. See: Fussell, The Old English Farming Book 1523-1730, page 72; Mary Aslin, Catalogue of the Printed Books on Agriculture, Published Between 1471 and 1840, page 141: Donald McDonald, Agricultural Writers, page 116; ESTC T96520. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.