An Olde Thrift Newly Revived. Wherein is Declared the Manner of Planting, Preserving, and Husbanding Yong Trees of Divers Kindes for Timber and Fuell by [CHURCHE, Rocke] - 1612

London: Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby] for Richard Moore, 1612. Small 4to. (6 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches). Largely printed in black letter. [6], 108, [4]pp. Folding woodcut plate, woodcut illustrations and diagrams. Trimmed close at fore-edge touching a few letters. Modern burgundy crushed morocco, covers panelled in blind, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt and tooled in blind First edition: early English work on the planting of trees and their use for timber. Published anonymously by R.C. (and with the preface signed R. Ch.), the work is sometimes attributed to Robert Chambers or R. Churton. Henrey, however, suggests that as the work was written by a surveyor, it seems more likely to have been Rocky Church, who served as the King's surveyor to Lord Salisbury. The work, written in the form of a dialogue between a surveyor, woodsman, gentleman and farmer, sought to improve practices the author felt led to scarcity and waste. The work is illustrated with a large folding woodcut plate of an instrument used to measure "boord, or any solide, round or square bodie, be it Timber, stone, glasse, or any such like, and also to take the heighth of a Tree, or of any thing else" bound between pages 74 and 75, followed by further necessary diagrams, tables, and formulas for calculating these measurements. STC 4923; Fussell I, p.33; Henrey 29.