A Six Weeks Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales by Young, Arthur

New.

Nabu Press, 2010-02-28. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

8vo. Pp. xi + 377 + xvi (Index). The second edition. With a folding frontispiece and one text figure. The endpapers are discoloured. Bookplate of previous owner (family crest). Full calf, gilt decorated edges,some shelfwear. Recently re-backed in calf with gilt-ruled raised bands, morocco label on spine with gilt title. Page edges speckled (red). A nice copy in an attractive binding. Subtitled: Describing, Particularly, I. The Present State of Agriculture and Manufacturing. II. The Different Methods of Cultivating the Soil. III. The Success attending some late Experiments on various Graffes, etc. IV. The Prices of Labour and Provisions. V. The State of the Working Poor in those Counties, wherein the Riots were most remarkable. With Desriptions and Copper-Plates, of such newly invented Implements of Husbandry as Deserve to be generally known: interspersed With accounts of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and other Objects worthy of Notice. In Several Letters to a Friend. By the author of… Read More

W. Strahan et al, 1772. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Third Edition Corrected and enlarged. Black and white frontispiece and 2 plates (1 folding). Full leather binding. Heavy rubbing, leather lifting and holes to cover. Bottom part of back strip missing. Hinges cracked inside covers. Foxing to pages. Soiling to a few page corners. 438pp + adverts. Some light soiling running throughout..

London, Salisbury and Edinburgh: W Strahan; W Nicholl, B Collins J Balfour, 1772. Third Edition, Corrected and Enlarged . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 3rd ed, 1772, 3 pls, VG. In contemporary half calf, worn marbled boards, corners and edges a little bumped and worn. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling, title in gilt to red leather label, edges a little worn. Internally, frontis, [2], (iii-xii), [1], 2-438 pp, [26] index, 3 pls (of 3, 1 folding), lacks the last 2 advert leaves, ink name to ffep (Hollingworth 1775), small worm hole to bottom right margin almost through, some light spotting, edge browning. (ESTC T14758. Kennedy Smith Johnson P280). Title continues: Describing particularly I., the present state of agriculture and manufactures. II., the different methods of cultivating the soil ... Interspersed with accounts of the seats of the nobility and gentry, and other objects worthy of notice. Young an agriculturist reformer and writer was… Read More

London: W. Strahan, W. Nicolls, B. Collins, J. Balfour, 1769. xi, 377pp, index. Folding engraved plate with 7 figs of implements. Original half calf with brown marbled boards. Spine incomplete and cracked to the joints.. Second Edition. Hardback. V.g.. large 8vo.