Rural improvements: or, essays on the most rational methods of improving estates; accomodated to the soil, climate, and circumstances of England: In which it is clearly demonstrated, that the Landed Estates of this Kingdom may with certainty, and at a very moderate Expence, be increased to double their present Value. The Method of doing which is clearly pointed out, and evinced from undeniable Principles, deduced from a Series of real Practice and Experience. Essay First; Shewing the Improvements that respect the Occupier. Essay Second; The Improvements that respect the Land-Owner. The whole interspersed with a Variety of interesting Reflections and Observations, on the Poor, Poor-Laws, high Prices of Provisions, Labour, decay of Foreign Trade, Population, Corn-Trade, Bounty on Exportation; with rational and proper Measures respecting the same. Also, Remarks On Messrs. Harte, Tull, Miller, Chateauvieux, Compleat English Farmer, Young, Peters, Weston, &c. By a land owner

People / Organizations

• Joseph Wimpey (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]

Publication year

1775

ESTC No.

T133887

Grub Street ID

182594

Description

xvi,528,xv,[1]p. ; 8°.

Note

A land owner = Joseph Wimpey.