Practical Agriculture: Or, a Complete System of Modern Husbandry; with the Methods of Planting, and the Management of Live Stock by R. W Dickson - 1807

E-128: R. Phillips. Good. 1807. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Leather. 4to. Published by Printed for Richard Phillips by Taylor and Co. , London. 1805. Two Volumes. Xix, 618 pp. , liii plates & 584-1265, xxxiv plates. Illustrated with hand-colored frontispieces, several foldouts and several including hand-colored livestock and botanical plates. First Edition/First Printing. Bound by in full contemporary calf leather. Gilt titles, leather spine labels and raised bands present to the spine. Boards have wear present (boards are scuffed at the joints; spine ends chipped and worn). Previous owner's bookplate present to the reverse of the front board, name present ot the title page. Foxing present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Richard Watson Dickson (9 November 1759 – 17 September 1824) was a physician and agriculturalist. Watson became interested in agriculture and wrote extensively about it. However, by 1812 he got into financial difficulties and was committed to the King's Bench debtors' prison. He was separated from his wife, and by the time of his death in 1824 he was living with his cousin Jane Dickson in Camberwell, London. E-128; 4to 11" - 13" tall .