Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry
- Title
- Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry
- Heading
- Expanding horizons: Agriculture
- Description
- Agricultural works circulated in England – a rural economy - before the invention of print: the thirteenth century saw the appearance both of Robert Grosseteste’s Les Reules Seynt Roberd (before 1253) on estate management and of Walter of Henley’s slim Le Dite de Hosebondrie (about 1280). But William Caxton’s output included nothing on agriculture, nor indeed on practical knowledge in general, and the first record of a printed agricultural book in England is Boke of Husbandry, a translation of Walter of Henley printed by Wynkyn de Worde in about 1508. In the sixteenth century works on agriculture were popular as practical tools for landowners. John Fitzherbert’s Book of Husbandry appeared in at least twenty editions between 1523 and 1598. Thomas Tusser’s Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie first appeared in 1557 and was expanded in 1573 to Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry. Tusser’s commonsense approach, expressed in verse, appealed, and the book ran through eleven reprints in the sixteenth century.
- Author
- Thomas Tusser
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Richard Tottel
- Date of Publication
- 1574
- Format
- 4to
- Century
- 16th
- Illustrations
- Woodcut
- Link on Alma Digital
- See database Making of the Modern World (members only)