STEELE, Richard. [The Husbandman's Calling; shewing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman. Being the substance of XII sermons preached to a country congregation. London: by M.S. and to be sold by E. Calvert at the sign of the Black spread Eagle in Barbican, circa 1670.] 8vo (162 x 100mm.) (Lacking title and several leaves of the 'Contents', lacking three leaves to rear, last text leaf being S8, text-block nearly cracked at p.17 and p.81, large tearing to pp.30-31, corner losses to p.97 and p.101, minor soiling.) Contemporary calf (rubbed, minor loss to spine). Note: rare. Richard Steele was an English nonconformist preacher and was arrested several times. The first edition was published in 1668 and subsequent editions came out in 1670, 1672 and 1681. An American edition was published in 1713 and has been seen at auction, but this English edition has not. Provenance: Thomas Bentley (name inscribed on margins of dedication leaf); Jacobus Watson (name inscribed in the margin of p.246).