Early British
Six Weeks Tour, Through The Southern Counties of England and Wales. (1769)
Described, Particularly, I. The present state of agriculture and manufactures. II. The different methods of cultivating soil. III. The success attending some late experiments on various Grasses, &c. IV. The prices of labour and provisions. V. The state of the working poor in those counties, wherein the riots were most remarkable. With descriptions 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 ot a friend. By the author of the Farmer's Letters.With a fold-out frontispiece showing 7 figures of various agricultural implements.Second Edition, corrected and enlarged (first 1768). 8vo, xi, 377 [16]pp. Contemporary calf, morocco label with gilt tooling.London: for W. Strahan and W. Nicoll.
Some foxing on the front and endpapers.
Stock Code: EA12955
