Introduction. xxiii 



is the only other edition which (as far as I know) has the 

 picture of ploughing upon the title-page.^ 



3. By Thomas Berthelet, in 1532 (Lowndes). It is " i2mo 

 in size, but in eights by signatures," and therefore 8vo. (A. 

 Wallis ; Derby Mercury, Nov. 1869). 



4. By Thomas Berthelet ; 8vo. ; the edition here reprinted 

 from the copy in the Cambridge University Library. There 

 are also two copies of it in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 

 The title-page has merely the words : " The | Boke OF | 

 Hvs- I BANDRY ; " printed within a border bearing the date 

 1534. The reverse of the title-page is blank. On the 

 second leaf, marked A ij, begins " The aucthors prologue." 

 The rest of sheet A (which contains in all only six leaves) 

 is occupied with the Prologue and " the T'able ; " and is not 

 foliated. Then follow sheets B to M, all of eight leaves, and 

 sheet N, of two leaves only. Sheets B to H have the folios 

 numbered from i to 56; sheets I, K,L have the folios numbered 

 from 51 to 75 ; and sheets M and N, from 81 to 90. Thus 

 the six numbers 51-56 occur twice over, and the five numbers 

 76-80 do not occur at all. It is not quite certain that the 

 apparent date is also the real one ; for at the end of Ber- 

 thelet's print of Xenophon's treatise of Housholde, which 

 has 1534 within the same border upon the title-page, there 

 is a colophon giving the date as 1537. This border was 

 evidently in use for at least three years. See Dibdin, iii. 287. 



5. By Berthelet; 1546. This edition also contains the 

 Treatise on Surveying. (Lowndes ; compare Dibdin, iii. 348.) 



6. By Berthelet; 1548. (Lowndes ; Dibdin, iii. 334, where 

 it is described as i2mo.) A copy of this is noticed in the 

 Catalogue of the Huth Library. 



^ Probably printed in 1531, as it professes to be "amended, with d}'uerse 

 other thynges added thervuto ; " for observe, that after this date, editions follow 

 in quick succession. 



