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[YOUNG (Arthur)]. A Six Weeks Tour, Through the Southern Counties of England and Wales. Describing, particularly, I. The present state of agriculture and manufactures. II. The different methods of cultivating the soil. III. The success attending some late experiments on various grasses, &c. IV. The various prices of labour and provisions. V. The state of the working poor in those counties, wherein the riots were most remarkable. With descriptions and models of such new invented implements of husbandry as deserve to be generally known: interspersed with accounts of the seats of the nobility and gentry, and other subjects worthy of notice. In several letters to a friend. By the author of the Farmer's Letters.1769
London: Printed for W. Strahan, W. Nicoll, B. Collins & J. Balfour, Second edition corrected and enlarged, 8vo (205 x 125 mm), xi, [1], 377, [17]pp., folding engraved frontispiece, cont. calf, joints cracked and a central crack to spine. Provenance: The Lawes Agriculture Library, Rothamsted Research Institute, with just a small neat faint stamp to front paste-down. Rothamsted Catalogue, p.163; Perkins Catalogue, 1997.
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