An essay for advancement of husbandry-learning: or propositions for the errecting [sic] colledge of husbandry / [Anon].

London : H. Hills, 1651.

3 unnumbered leaves, 17 pages ; (4to)

Wing D2970a

ESTC R26090

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), D2970A

Copy 1 Note: Published by Hartlib, but ascribed in Wing to Cressy Dymock, and by G.E. Fussell ('The old English farming, books', p. 44, 1947) to Dymock or Gabriel Plattes, probably the latter. Date of Hartlib's death given by Musgrave (Obit. iii. 161); also by Hall, A.R., and Hall, M.B. ('The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', vol. ii, p. 140, 1966) in a note to a letter of J. Hevelius dated Jan. 1664 which refers to Hartlib as deceased. For variant with corrected t.p. ('erecting a colledge') see D. McDonald ('Agricultural writers', p. 75, 1908)