RICHARDSON (William). An Essay on Agriculture; containing an introduction, in which the science of agriculture is pointed out, by a careful attention to the works of nature; also, the means of rendering barren soils luxuriantly productive, at a very moderate expense, and of beneficially employing the industrious and un-occupied poor. To which is added, A memoir, drawn up, at the express desire of His Imperial Highness the Arch-Duke John of Austria, on the nature and nutritive qualities of fiorin grass, with practical remarks on its abundant properties, and the best mode of cultivating that extraordinary vegetable.1818

London: Printed for Whitmore and Fenn, First edition, 8vo, x, 173, [1]pp., with errata slip tipped-in, later green cloth. Provenance: The Lawes Agriculture Library, Rothamsted Research Institute. Rothamsted, p.127; Perkins, 1444.