Agriculture.- Mascall (Leonard) The First Booke of Cattell, 3 parts in 1, first edition, largely printed in black letter, woodcut device to first title, titles of second and third parts within woodcut architectural borders, woodcut initials and head-pieces, lacks initial blank and 2ff. following 2D5 (?cancels), pagination erratic but seemingly otherwise complete, the odd spot but a very good, clean copy overall, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, [STC 17580; Fussell I, p.9 for 1596 ed.], small 4to, by John Wolfe, 1587.

⁂ The rare first edition, ESTC cites only the BL copy in UK (curiously, not this copy) and 3 in America (Folger, Huntington and Michigan State). Fussell calls the work "important, but, in common with most of the writers of his and the succeeding century, Mascall had no hesitation in borrowing from earlier writers, and I doubt if he ever challenged their authority."