A singer and poet as well as a farmer, Thomas Tusser (c.1524 80) first produced his verse manual on farming in the mid-sixteenth century. Since then, it has gone through more than a dozen editions. This 1812 version is a collation of three of the poem's early editions. Editor William Mavor (1758 1837) provides a biographical sketch of Tusser, modernises the work's orthography and punctuation, and includes page-by-page annotations on subject matter and difficult points of language. The work divides into two: the first half, structured around the farming calendar, deals with the cultivation of...
A singer and poet as well as a farmer, Thomas Tusser (c.1524 80) first produced his verse manual on farming in the mid-sixteenth century. Since then, ...
