A detail from Joseph Blagrave, The Epitomie of the Art of Husbandry, 1685, estimated at £400-600 at Tennants.
The 180-lot collection provides an insight into agricultural practices and rural law.
Tennants says: “Burtt was well a well-known figure at auction houses and among the antiquarian book trade and took great pains to have his books and their bindings repaired or replaced sympathetically, thus preserving for posterity books that had been used by generations of agriculturalists.
The provenances of the books, illustrated by bookplates in the collection, reflect the abiding interest in the subject by everyone from the aristocracy, such as the Earl of Ilchester, Earl Fitzwilliam, and Earl De La Warr to smallholders.”
Shown here is a detail from Joseph Blagrave, The Epitomie of the Art of Husbandry, 1685, estimated at £400-600.
