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 Prices of Labour and Provisions. 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: interspersed With Accounts of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and other Objects worthy of Notice. By the author of the Farmer's letters

People / Organizations

• Arthur Young (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for W. Strahan; W. Nicoll, No. 51, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; T. Cadell, in the Strand; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh, MDCCLXXII. [1772] The third edition, corrected and enlarged.; ..

Publication year

1772

ESTC No.

T147158

Grub Street ID

193727

Description

xii,438,[30]p.,plates. ; 8°.

Note

The author of The farmer's letters = Arthur Young

With an index and two final advertisement leaves

Braces in imprint.