Volume 2

Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets : Six papers read to the Archæological society of Glasgow April 1882-January 1888 / by John Ferguson.

  • John Ferguson
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1895-1915
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Credit: Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets : Six papers read to the Archæological society of Glasgow April 1882-January 1888 / by John Ferguson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    §§ 17, 18. It may be convenient for reference to give the names and editions of the rest of the works attributed to Mascall which are in the British Museum. A Booke of fishing with Hooke and Line. . . . Another of sundrie Engines and Trappes to take Polecats, Buzards, Rattes. . . . 1590. 40; and London, 1884. 40. W. C. Hazlitt (Bibliographical Collections and Notes, 1876, I., p. 282) quotes an edition of 1600, 4to. A booke of the art and maner, howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees. . . . London, [1572], 1575, [1580?], 1582, 1592, 1596, 1652, 1656, all in 40. Maunsell (Catalogue, 1595, Part II., p. 10) gives the title of the 1580 edition as follows: Art of Grafting and Planting., all forts of trees, how to fet Stones and fowe Pepins, to make wild trees to Graffe on, as alfo remedies, and Medicines, with other new practifes. &c. by Leonard Mafcall. Pr. for Jo. Wight. 1580. 4°. Of the editions, Richard Weston, in “ A Chronological Catalogue of English Authors on Agriculture, Botany, Gardening, etc.,” added to Tracts on Practical Agriculture and Gardenings London, 1773, Svo, p. 10, quotes that of 1572, and (p. 27) that of 1652. W. C. Hazlitt (Bibliographical Collections and Notes, Second Series, London, 1882, p. 387) quotes an edition of 1590, besides some of those in the Museum. Mascall’s remaining work is that on Cattle, in three books. In the British Museum are editions of the following dates: 1596, 1600, 1605, 1620, 1633, 1662-61, all in 40, and 1680, 8°, called ‘The Countryman’s Jewel.’ Weston (Chronological Catalogue, p. 16) mentions under 1596: On Horses, the second book of his treatise on cattle, black letter, in 4to; but he quotes (p. 20) Government of Cattle, in three parts, black letter, in 4to, 1627, and (p. 27) the same book, black letter, in 4to, 1653, which editions are not in the Museum. He also quotes (p. 43) The Countryman's Jewel, in three books, in 8°, 1680. In the note || to § 18, I have described the edition of 1662 (the title to the second book on Horses is dated 1661), and I may now describe the