Search Results: general view of the agriculture by young arthur

A. M. Kelley. Used - Very Good. New issue of 1813 ed. 1978. Cloth, no dj. Very Good.

David & Charles, 1971. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

A. M. Kelley. Used - Very Good. 1978. New issue of 1813 ed. Hardcover. Very Good. Dust jackst is very good.

David & Charles Reprints, 1969. Reprint VG/VG-. Hardback. DJ: some rubbing & edgewear; small chips/closed tears/creases at edges/corners; fading/yellowing; price-clipped. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; erasure mark in corner of 1st page; some yellowing; overall clean & tight. 432 pages Keywords: nature/animals

David & Charles Publishers. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

RICHARD PHILLIPS, 1807. Book. Good. Hardcover. FIRST. Two volume set in half leather with beautiful full color map. missing one cover.

London: Ricchard Phillips, 1807. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Two large 8vo volumes ; in full calf, with later calf spines with rules and decorations in gilt and with what appear to original morocco labels; xv, [1], 2-400 pages, with a large and attractive hand-colored folding map of Essex; vii, [1], 458, followed by a plate of "Mr. Tweed's Horse Hoe" and a Catalogue of Agricultural Seeds, &c." sold by Thomas Gibbs [2] each volume with a number of engraved plates mostly of agricultural implements and related images; Volume 2 has a striking folding plate of "Mr .Whitbread's Chalk Quarry at Purfleet". Very Good binding.

One folding handcolored engraved map & nine engraved plates (two folding). [iii]-xix, 236 pp. 8vo, cont. calf (rebacked, minor foxing). London: Printed by B. McMillan for G. & W. Nicol et al., 1804. First edition, published in the great series initiated by the Board of Agriculture from 1793, of which Young was secretary. Young's account of Hertfordshire is generally recognized to be one of the best in the series. Very good copy with the bookplate of Robert Clutterbuck (1772-1831), author of The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford (1815-27). Half-title lacking.

Finely handcolored engraved frontis. map & two folding engraved plates (one with some foxing). [3]-15, 314 pp. 8vo, cont. polished half-cal & marbled boards, flat spine gilt, blue morocco lettering piece on spine. London: B. Macmillan for G. Nicol et al., 1797. Second and fullest edition; a preliminary version had been published as a 92-page quarto in 1794. The first of six contributions by Young to the extraordinary series of county agricultural surveys inaugurated by Sir John Sinclair, when he became the first president of the new Board of Agriculture in 1793. Young in fact had misgivings about the vast project, and complained privately of Sinclair's "incessant printing." In this work, Young found much to praise: the rich tenant farmers, the practice of hollow draining, the system of crop rotations, and the excellent roads. However, there is a long section near the end on the impoverished inhabitants of the county. A very fine copy, lacking the half-title and, as… Read More