Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BRADLEY, RICHARD. The Country Housewife and Lady's Director, in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm. xi, [1], 187, [1] pages, including engraved frontispiece. 8vo, contemporary calf with later leather lettering piece; stains and soiling on preliminaries, contents otherwise relatively clean. London: Woodman and Lyon, 1727

Additional Details

first edition. Oxford, pages 58-59. Bound with: Lawrence, John. The Clergy-Man's Recreation: Shewing the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening. [16], 83, [1] pages, including engraved frontispiece. London: Bernard Lintott, 1714. Henrey 933. Also bound in is the third part (The Lady's Recreation, lacking title page) of Lawrence's 1718 Gardening Improv'd. Henrey 940.