The modern improvements in agriculture [electronic resource] : containing the principles of tillage and vegetation, and present practice of the most skilful husbandmen, in the Culture of Corn and Pulse, and of the Grasses, Plants, and Roots for feeding Cattle: And a comparative View of their Uses and Advantages, from authentic Experiments made by many ingenious Persons, particularly in Britain and Ireland. Likewise the most approved methods of watering land, Draining, and other valuable Improvements. Illustrated With Copper-Plates, and Descriptions Of Several New Instruments; One a Horse-Hoe invented by the Author, Of very general Use, for hoeing all Grops planted in Rows, with wide for narrow Spaces. By Mr. Forbes.
1784
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The modern improvements in agriculture [electronic resource] : containing the principles of tillage and vegetation, and present practice of the most skilful husbandmen, in the Culture of Corn and Pulse, and of the Grasses, Plants, and Roots for feeding Cattle: And a comparative View of their Uses and Advantages, from authentic Experiments made by many ingenious Persons, particularly in Britain and Ireland. Likewise the most approved methods of watering land, Draining, and other valuable Improvements. Illustrated With Copper-Plates, and Descriptions Of Several New Instruments; One a Horse-Hoe invented by the Author, Of very general Use, for hoeing all Grops planted in Rows, with wide for narrow Spaces. By Mr. Forbes.
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A new edition, complete in one volume.
Publication Details
London : printed for T. Evans, near York-Buildings, Strand; J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly; J. Ogilvy, Holborn; and T. Vernor, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Language
English
Description
[2],vii,[1],324,[2],235[i.e.325]-487,[3],489-654,[2]p.,plates ; 8⁰.
Note
A reissue, with a collective titlepage, of a work published anonymously in 1774 in four parts.
Parts 1, 3-4 have separate titlepages, reading: 'The modern improvements in agriculture. .. By a practiser of both the old and new husbandry [i.e. Francis Forbes], London: printed for J. Wilkie'.
Part 1 is dated 1774, parts 3-4, 1776.
Pagination and register are continuous.
With an errata leaf to part 1 following p.158.
P.325 misnumbered 235.
With a final advertisement leaf for J. Wilkie.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Parts 1, 3-4 have separate titlepages, reading: 'The modern improvements in agriculture. .. By a practiser of both the old and new husbandry [i.e. Francis Forbes], London: printed for J. Wilkie'.
Part 1 is dated 1774, parts 3-4, 1776.
Pagination and register are continuous.
With an errata leaf to part 1 following p.158.
P.325 misnumbered 235.
With a final advertisement leaf for J. Wilkie.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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English Short Title Catalog, T122807.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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