The second booke of the English husbandman Contayning the ordering of the kitchin-garden, and the planting of strange flowers: the breeding of all manner of cattell. Together with the cures, the feeding of cattell, the ordering both of pastures and meddow-ground: with the vse both of high-wood and vnder-wood. Whereunto is added a treatise, called Good mens recreation: contayning a discourse of the generall art of fishing, with the angle, and otherwise; and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together vvith the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyeting of the fighting cocke. A worke neuer written before by any author. By G.M - Markham, Gervase 1586-1637 (Printed by T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in St. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1615)
"The pleasures of princes, or Good mens recreations", a prose paraphrase with additions of "The secrets of angling" by John Dennys, has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. - A variant (STC 17356) has title pages dated 1614. - G.M. = Gervase Markham. - P. 105 misnumbered 205. - Part 1 only. - Printer's name from STC. - Reproduction of the original in the British Library. - STC (2nd ed.), 17356a. - The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A"; the last leaf is blank