Folio (318 x 197 mm). Engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate; woodcut initials. (First and last few leaves frayed, "The Explanation of the Frontispiece" leaf bound in on a stub, some overall browning or staining.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, endpapers renewed, corners repaired). Provenance: Thomas Jones (signature, 1763, inscription on recto of first leaf); a few 19th-century annotations. 

Fourth edition of Worlidge's Systema, which was first published in 1668, outlining general improvements, enclosing meadows and pastures and watering and draining them, and with information about clovers, vetches, Wiltshire long-grass, hemp, and flax.