420 APPENDIX I. 



PRINTED BOOKS. 



CRESCENTTCTS or PETRUS DE CRESCENTIIS. (Born 1233 : died 1320.) 



Opus Ruralium Commodorum aive de Agricultura. Libri xii. Augsburg, 

 1471. 



[This work was translated into Italian, 1478 ; into French, 1486 ; into 

 German, 1493.] 



LITTLETON (Sin THOMAS). 



Leteltun Tenuris new correcte. 1516. 



[The editio princeps is a folio volume printed by Letton and Machlinia 

 without date or title. The work begins : " Tenant en fee simple est," etc. 

 Another edition, also without date or title, was published by Machlinia, 

 probably later as it contains fewer abbreviations. 



The first dated edition (1516) is in Norman French. The first edition in 

 English is published by Berthelet : Lyttilton Tenures truely translated into 

 Englysshe, 1538.] 



MORE (SiR THOMAS). 



Libellus vere aureus, nee minus salutaris quam festivus de optimo rei 

 publicae statu, deque nova Insula Utopia. 1516. 



[The first edition of Utopia was printed at Louvain. The book was 

 translated into English under the title of A fruiteful, and pleasant worke 

 of the beste state of a pubJyque weale, and of the newe yle called Utopia, by 

 " Ralph Robynson Citizein and Goldsmithe of London," 1551.] 



FlTZHERBERT (JOHN). 



1. The Boke of Husbondrye. 1523. 

 " Here begynneth a newe tracte or treatyse mooste pf table for all 



husbade men." 



[Book of Husbandry, ed. W. W. Skeat. English Dialect Society, 1882.] 



2. The Boke of Surueyeng and Improuvemets. 1523 

 " Here begynneth a ryght frutefull mater : and hath to name the boke 



of surueyeng and improuvemets." 



BENESE (RICHARD), " channon of Merton Abbey besyde London." 



This boke sheweth the maner of lande, as well of woodlande, as of lande in 

 thefelde, and comply nge the true nombre of acres of the same, etc. 1537. 



TURNER (WILLIAM). 



Libellus de Re Herbaria Novus, in quo herbarum aliquot nomina greca, 

 latina, & Anglica habes, etc. 1538. 



[The first English version was entitled The names of herbes in Qreke, 

 Latin, Englishe, Duche and Frenche, wyth the commune names that Herbaries 

 and Apotecaries use. Gathered by William Turner. 1548. 



The second edition of the work appeared as A new Herball, wherin are 

 conteyned the names of Herbes in Qreke, Latin, etc. etc. 1551.] 



S. (W.) or HALES (JOHN). 



The Compendious or brief e Examination of certayne ordinary complaints 

 of divers of our countrymen in these our times. 1549. 



[First printed in 1581 but edited (1893) from the MS. of 1549 by 

 Elizabeth Lamond.] 



DIGGES (LEONARD). 



A Book named Tectonicon, briefly shewing the exact measuring and spedie 

 reckoning all maner of Land, Square Timber, etc. 1556. 



[This book continued to be republished at intervals till the close of the 

 seventeenth century: e.g. 1634, 1637, 1656, 1692.] 



