The English Improver Improved or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed Discovering the Improveableness of all Lands.......With a Second Part; Containing Six Newer Peeces of Improvement

London: John Wright , 1652 A good copy of the 'Third Impression much Augmented' in full leather binding with new spine with raised bands and title label and contemporary boards. Blith (1604-1654) was known as a writer on husbandry. He was a supporter of Cromwell as the decorative title page with the motto 'Vive La Re Publick.' demonstrates. The book sets out and promotes improvements in husbandry and was suppressed after the Restoration in 1660. The binding is sound and clean. There is a lot of wear and leather loss at the corners. The marbled endpapers look to have had repair and are probably predate the binding work. The contents have toning and there has been some close trimming to margins notable in the epistles section at the beginning where page titles are missing but there is no loss to text. There is the signature of Philip Styles to the initial blank and a signature of Tho Wilkins, 1683 to the recto of the decorative title - possibly (although could be another Wilkins) repeated at the side of the title page. Contents: decorative title; letterpress title (blank verso); dedication 12pp; Various epistles 30pp; Poems 3 pp; errata 1p; text pp 1-262, with one diagram in the text, 2 folding and 2 single plates; finis with signature of Tho W; appendix 8pp; table 10pp; finis. Extra leaves have been inserted in some places on instruction: between 230 and 231, and 248 and 249. A leaf has been added between 256 and 261 - on instruction and the ties work from 256 to the new leaf and to 262, There are some mispaginations with no loss of text: 22-73-24; 228-226-230; 235-234-235-238; 264-752-258. There is occasional staining and there is a little tearing in the gutter of the final leaves of the table. Occasional light annotation and underlining - most in pencil. Book size: 19 cms x 14 cms. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.