General view of the agriculture of the county of Gloucester : drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement /
Jonathan A. Hill, bookseller, description: First edition. Rudge (1754-1825), antiquary, became archdeacon of Gloucester in 1814 and was the author of several works on the history of Gloucester. "He was successful, both as a parson and writer ...The Reverend was a literary man, a local man, and...
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1807.
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| Summary: | Jonathan A. Hill, bookseller, description: First edition. Rudge (1754-1825), antiquary, became archdeacon of Gloucester in 1814 and was the author of several works on the history of Gloucester. "He was successful, both as a parson and writer ...The Reverend was a literary man, a local man, and clearly and quite definitely closely acquainted with the area he wrote about." Fussell, "The Old English Farming Books", Vol. III, page 213. Fine copy in a rather handsome binding. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "showing a detailed knowledge of farming practice and an able grasp of the economy of the county as a whole, [it] was a vast improvement on the board's first survey for Gloucestershire, a slight work of 1794 by George Turner, and was more comprehensive even than a substantial treatise on the county produced by the professional agriculturist William Marshall in 1789." |
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| Item Description: | Caption title: Agricultural survey of the county of Gloucester. Spine title: Agricultural survey : Gloucester. Includes index. Errata and Additions: p. viii. "Publications of the Board of Agriculture": p. [iv]. "Sold by Wilkie and Robinson, Paternoster-Row; J. Asperne, Conrhill, London; Hough and Son, and Washbourn, Gloucester; Ruff, and Jones, Cheltenham; Reddell, Tewkesbury; Kenner, Stroud; Stevens and Watkins, Cirencester; Arch. Constable and Co., Edinburgh; and J. Archer, Dublin." Signatures: pi⁴ B-2C⁸ 2D⁴ Plates: 1) "Map of the soil of Gloucestershire" (folded), 2) "Plan of the Thames & Severn Canal Navigation" (folded), 3) Four cottages and a school-room, built at Mangersbury, in Glo'stershire, in the year 1800, by E.J. Chamberlayne, Esq.", 4) "Rogers's improved apparatus to the draining Machine.", 5) [lower part with title lacking, map of Kempsford] (folded). |
| Physical Description: | viii, 408 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates (3 folded) : illustrations, maps, tables ; 22 cm |