Lost country life. [Man in history; mediaeval world; work of year; January: New year; February: Rest not for taking thy ease; March: March dust to be sold, Worth ransom of gold; April: Sweet April showers; May: Cold May & windy, Barn filleth up finely; June: woolly sheep; July: No tempest, good July; August: Harvest; September: September blow soft Till fruit be in loft; October: October good blast, To blow hog mas; November: Leave latewardly rearing; December: O dirty December, For Christmas remember; commercial world; Trade; Travel; Markets & fairs; Commodities; Commonly used wild & cultivated plants; Plants & flowers commonly grown in late mediaeval period; Cultivation & use of plants; Tusser's hop-yard] Hardcover - 1979

New York : Pantheon Books, 1979, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st American edition, 1st printing ; ix, 374 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0394510364; 9780394510361 LCCN: 79-3320 ; LC: DA110; Dewey: 942 ; OCLC: 5674041 ; grey blue and beige cloth in pictorial color dustjacket ; Contents : Introduction -- Background -- The man in history -- The mediaeval world -- The work of the year -- January: New year -- February: "Rest not for taking thy ease" -- March: "March dust to be sold, Worth ransom of gold" -- April: "Sweet April showers" -- May: "Cold May and windy, Barn filleth up finely" -- June: the woolly sheep -- July: "No tempest, good July" -- August: Harvest -- September: "September blow soft Till fruit be in loft" -- October: "October good blast, To blow the hog mast" -- November: "Leave latewardly rearing" -- December: "O dirty December, For Christmas remember" -- The commercial world -- Trade -- Travel -- Markets and fairs -- Commodities -- Appendixes -- Commonly used wild and cultivated plants -- Plants and flowers commonly grown in the late mediaeval period -- Observations on the cultivation and use of plants -- Tusser's hop-yard -- Glossary. ; "how English country folk lived, worked, threshed, thatched, rolled fleece, milled corn, brewed mead, ploughed, reaped, spun wool, churned butter, kept bees, wove baskets and carried on all the other tasks of daily rural life" ; price-clipped dustjacket ; FINE/FINE.