Norwich: Printed by and for Stevenson and Matchett, et al., (1800). Third edition, revised, preceded by editions in 1795 and 1798. ESTC T185020 records six copies, none in North America. A manual for measuring and surveying land, particularly farm land, with a supplement containing a table for measuring thatcher's work...
London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by J. Brotherton, 1766 [&] London: Printed for J. Brotherton, 1766. First combined edition, printing two previously published works (of 1758 and 1759), bound with a third that was also first published in 1759. Cf. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 10183 and ESTC...
San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1861. First edition, one of 165 copies printed. One of the last published books of San Francisco's Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press, founded in the late 1940s by Henry Evans and his wife Patricia, with assistance from their daughter Judith, who set the type for...
London: Printed by J. Cooke, 1767. First edition. ESTC N6101, records six copies: BL, Cambridge (2), Reading University, HEH, and Washington State; there was a second printing in 1769, of which ESTC T173535 records ten copies. A substantial work over 125 short chapters on vegetable, herb, and fruit gardens and...
London: Printed for W. Strahan, W. Nicoll, B. Collins and J. Balfour, 1769. Second edition, revised and expanded, with a new preface; the first edition was published in 1768. NCBEL II, 1894; Cf. Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature 10407; and Printing and the Mind of Man 214; and G. E....
Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran. Sold by Paton, Symmer & Gordon, et al., 1743. First edition. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 7964; ESTC T137121; and see Fussell, More Old English Farming Books, pages 20-21. A seminal and interesting work on Scottish agriculture by Robert Maxwell (1695-1765), a....
London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, 1721. Fifth and final edition. Kress 3407; ESTC T132244; and see Fussell, The Old English Farming Books, pages 70-71. ¶ A posthumous work by Sir Jonas Moore (1617-1679), first published in 1697 (with subsequent editions in 1703, 1705 and 1707), a all-purpose guide to numerous...
Edinburgh: Printed for A. Constable and for Constable, Hunter, Park, and Hunter, London, 1810. First edition. An exhaustive - 646 pages - guide to gardening, including vegetable and fruit gardens, gardens for pleasure, green houses and the keeping of exotic plants, etc. Walter Nicol (1769-1811) was a designer of gardens...