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London, Dublin & Edinburgh: Samuel Bagster; John Archer; Ross and Blackwood, 1802. Second edition, enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates (with stains, and virtually detached), pp 432, vii, untrimmed and unpressed, the first few pages rather weak, a small marginal stain to the last 25 pages, otherwise clean internally though rather weak, original boards with a later paper spine and small handwritten label. An over-industrious former owner has erased the printing date on the title page and erroneously entered 1828. [From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley, with his stamp on the front endpaper which also contains a contemporary signature. The authorship is frequently given as the agricultural writer Arthur Young, but I can find no justification for this ? Fussell certainly made no such assertion.]. Second edition. Boards. Fair.

London, Dublin & Edinburgh: Samuel Bagster; John Archer; Ross and Blackwood, 1802. Second edition, enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates a little browned and marked, pp 432, vii, slightly used throughout, the blank page following the front endpaper is creased and lacking a corner, bound in a later brown cloth. The authorship is frequently given as the agricultural writer Arthur Young, but I can find no justification for this ? Fussell certainly made no such assertion.]. Second edition. Cloth. Good.

London: Samuel Bagster & sold in Dublin John Archer, & Edinburgh Ross & Blackwood Second Enlarged and Improved edition, 1802. Hardcover. Good. Plates (2) with a total of 15 illustrations (not in the first edition) . Octavo contemporary half calf gilt (corners very worn/hinge cracking but entirely sound) vii+(ip= explanation of the plates) + 2 plates +432pp Advice taken from many sources including Marshall's Rural Economy, Young's Tours, Hunter's Georgical Essays, Curtis's Practical Obvservations on British Grasses, Darwin's Phytologia, Evelyn etc. some rather more difficult to obtain. Coat of arms Bookplates of Beeston Long Esq. End-papers and first and last few pages sl.foxed else V.G (Fussell III p43).

Two engraved plates. 4, vii, [1], 432 pp. 8vo, cont. polished tree calf, flat spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: W. Smith, 1802. "Second edition, enlarged and improved" (1st ed.: 1801) of this compendium of agricultural advice extracted from various works including Marshall's Rural Economy, Hunter's Georgical Essays, and Curtis's Practical Observations on the British Grasses. Young (1741-1820), "was not only the best-known agricultural reformer and publicist of his time, with an international reputation, but also a figure of importance in the political and social issues of the day. He had an extraordinary capacity for work...In an age of hazardous roads he travelled many thousands of miles, a high proportion of them on horseback or on foot, and he still found energy to write up his day's notes and perhaps some letters in his inn room at night. Some modern historians have criticized his agricultural work and have compared him unfavourably… Read More