[Worlidge (John)] Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum & Botanicum: or, a Dictionary of Husbandry, Gardening, Trade, Commerce, and All Sorts of Country Affairs, second edition, 2 engraved plates, 1 folding, woodcut illustrations, title with contemporary ink note to fore-edge, some foxing and browning, light damp-staining at end, heavier to last few leaves, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn at corners, [Fussell II p.110/121; Goldsmiths' 5341], for J. Nicholson & others, 1717 § Potts (Thomas) The British Farmer's Cyclopaedia; or, Complete Agricultural Directory, first edition, additional engraved title (taken from the second edition and dated 1808), numerous engraved plates, many hand-coloured, bookplate of John E. Mattley, some scattered spotting, later half calf over marbled boards, lightly rubbed, 1807; and other agricultural dictionaries and encyclopaedias, v.s. (11)

⁂ The first mentioned features food and drink, with recipes for "common drink and eatables" and a section on country housewifery. It also includes herbs, husbandry, angling and fishes, horses and country pursuits such as ferreting, hawking, fowling and cock-fighting.