The Epitome of the Art of Husbandry ... by J. B. Gent de [BLAGRAVE, Joseph (1610-1682)] - 1670

London: Printed for Benjamin Billingsley, 1670. Two parts in one, 8vo. [4], 306, [14]; [8, including engraved additional title to the second part], 59, [5], [2]pp. Publisher's ads in the rear. With the 4pp. Table to the second part bound in following the title (between Aa1 and Aa2). Contemporary calf, covers and spine ruled in blind, early reparis to the upper cover corners. Scarce English 17th century work on husbandry. This work is ascribed to Blagrave, a noted 17th century astrologist and authority on the practice of physic, as it was edited by his nephew Obadiah Blagrave (according to DNB), a London bookseller, who along with Benjamin Billingsley first published the first part of the work in 1669. The second part, titled New Additions to the Art of Husbandry, first appeared in the present first combined edition. Bibliographies make no mention of the engraved additional title to the second part, present here, and no such additional title was evidently issued for the first part until the following edition of 1675. Wing B3116; ESTC R33215; cf. Goldsmiths 2580. Not in Fussell or Henrey.