A Compleat Body of Husbandry, Volume IV by Hale, Thomas - 1759

London : Tho. Osborne; Tho. Trye; S. Crowder, 1759. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 401 + 2 pg appendix and 22pp general index, viii pp title page & table of contents. Full leather, corners bent and frayed, 3/4"x1" piece of leather gone from spine, closed tears at spine, gilt number 4 on spine, with gilt line decorations at board edges and at 5 raised bands. Foxing on end papers, title page and page edges; occasional interior foxing. Fold-out design plan of the Stirrer intact. Fold-out and index have tide markings. This volume includes 134 chapters with top of the page headings including vineyards, wheat, soils, manures, bogs, flax, draining of roads, brewing malt liquors, foddering of cattle, various plants, bees, clearing the ground, and much more; concluding with a 90 pp "Kalendar, or directions for the care of his land and his flock, according to the twelve months of the year." Volume 4 only..