STANDISH, Arthur

by Arthur Standish

£4,950 · Offered by Sokol Books

Very rare second edition of this important work, a rare variant published with a folding imprimatur leaf, not found in the British Library. Arthur Standish reflected the general concern at the increasing shortage of timber in The Commons Complaint which contained two special grievances, as noted in the subtitles: the first, general destruction and waste of woods in this Kingdom with a remedy for the same: also how to plant wood according to the nature of every soile The second concerned the extreme dearth of victuals and was to be remedied by planting fruit trees, breeding more poultry, and destroying vermin. Peter McDonald, J. P. Lassoie. The Literature of Forestry and Agroforestry. Church s contemporary was Arthur Standish, about whom we know next to nothing. He may have been involved in some way in the Crown surveys, given that in 1611 he wrote that he had been traversing the country investigating the themes on which he would publish for the previous four years. In a series of texts (or more correctly, one gradually expanded text), Standish provided a schema for enhancing the national wood yields such that the whole Kingdom hereby may be preserved from the ruine that is greatly feared. His Work differed from Church s in that it provided rather less detail on arboriculture, but a rather grander scheme for increasing output that would benefit the entire economy, freeing up land and resources for alternative uses, and through which the careful setting of pollards and hedgerow

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