A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Kent; With Observations on the Means of it Improvement. Drawn up for The Consideration of the Board of Agriculture, and Internal Improvement, From the original Report transmitted to the Board; With additional remarks of several respectable country gentlemen and farmers
by BOYS (John):
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- first
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for G. Nicol...and sold by Messrs Robinson..., J. Sewell..., Cadell and Davies...., William Creech, Edinburgh; and John Archer, Dublin, 1796. 8vo, pp. xiv [xv - xvi Preface], 206 [207 Errata, 208 blank], including half-title, folding engraved coloured map before title-page, folding chart between pp. 126 and 127, 2 full-page engraved plates, original wrappers, uncut; ex-library, with library stamp in blind on front free end-paper, half-title, and title-page, library shelf marks in pencil and ink on verso of title-page, with ink slightly showing through to recto, spine reinforced, covers a little soiled. Boys (1749 - 1824) was a farmer in Kent and one of the commissioners for sewers for east Kent. He wrote this book at the request of the board of agriculture. The first edition of this book was published in Brentford in 1794. Goldsmiths 16572.
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- John Price Antiquarian Books
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- A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Kent; With Observations on the Means of it Improvement. Drawn up for The Consideration of the Board of Agriculture, and Internal Improvement, From the original Report transmitted to the Board; With additional remarks of several respectable country gentlemen and farmers
- Author
- BOYS (John):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- London: Printed for G. Nicol...and sold by Messrs Robinson..., J. Sewell..., Cadell and Davies...., William Creech, Edinburgh;
- Keywords
- agriculture topography prose
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- agriculture;
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