THE NEW AND ADMIRABLE ARTE OF SETTING CORNE: with all the necessarie Tooles and other Circumstances belonging to the same: the particular titles whereof, are set down in the Page following. PLAT, Sir Hugh (Platt or Platte).

SECOND EDITION 1601 (first edition published in 1600), divided into 8 chapters, the running title: The new found arte of setting corne, printed signature H. Plat Esquire on final page. DAMAGED BOOK SAVED FROM A FIRE AT SOME TIME. Small 4to, approximately 175 x 130 mm, 7 x 5 inches, woodcut vignette on title, headpiece and large initial to first page, 32 unnumbered pages, signatures: A-D4. bound in full calf, gilt title to spine, recent endpapers. Amateur repair to binding, lower half of upper cover with unmatching leather repair, lower corner of lower cover damaged by fire, 60 mm crack (2 inches) to foot of upper cover, strengthening repairs to inner margins of all pages, no loss to text, damage to edges of both pastedowns, shelf wear to edges of covers, gilt name of Farnborough Abbey at foot of rear pastedown, brown stain to leaves A2 and D3, all text readable, tips of top corners of 4 leaves neatly repaired, nowhere near text. Fair copy only. Another issue of STC 19993.5, according to ESTC, quires A and C reset. See: ESTC S114898; Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books, 1536-1603, page 633, No. 19993; Mary S. Aslin, Catalogue of the Printed Books on Agriculture 1471-1840, page 103; G. E. Fussell, Old English Farming Books, Volume 1, page 15; Blanche Henrey, Volume 1, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, page 155: "New and admirable arte of setting of corne, a treatise in which this author advocates growing corn by setting the seed at regular distances apart, the usual method of sowing corn at that time being by broadcast. On the title-page is a woodcut of a growing plant of corn, over which is a spade lying in a scroll bearing the words 'Adam's toole revived'; Donald McDonald, Agricultural Writers 1200-1800, page 58 with illustration opposite. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.