A Six Weeks Tour, Through the Southern Counties of England and Wales . . . Interspersed With Accounts of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and other Objects worthy of Notice
by Young, Arthur
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Dublin: J. Milliken, 1771. Hardcover. Very Good. "The Second Edition, Corrected and enlarged." xii, 1 leaf of an engraved plate (folded), 51, 50-284, [20] p.: 1 in-text engraved illustration, tables; 20 cm. Contemporary full calf; modern bonded leather spine label with gilt-tooled title: Six Weeks Tour. Folded plate, often bound as frontispiece, is here bound following p. xii. Bookseller's advertisements on final pages following index. Error in pagination: page numbers 50 and 51 are repeated. Former owner's name at head of title: John Morrison. Title page continued: "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 Prices of Labour and Provisions in different Counties. 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." In Very Good Condition: modern repair of spine with Japanese tissue; corners rubbed; folded plate and pages are clean and crisp.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007778
- Title
- A Six Weeks Tour, Through the Southern Counties of England and Wales . . . Interspersed With Accounts of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and other Objects worthy of Notice
- Author
- Young, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. Milliken
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1771
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Exploration; Gardening & Nature; European History;
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