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Fourth Edition. Three Volumes [Volume I, II and III]. Octavo (14 cm wide x 21.7 cm high). Volume I: II, 489 pages plus 7 unnumbered pages of an Index and including 1 full-page illustration of a "Plough for Cleaning Turnips"/ Volume II: 484, V pages plus 1 page of Advertising of "Books Printed for Archibald Constable" plus 1 Extra-Large Fold-out "Table, or Mode of Cultivating the Farm, 1 full-page plate showcasing the "Advantage to be derived from streighting of Rivers", 1 full-page plate showcasing different Grubs and Caterpillars, 1 full--page Diagram showing compositions of soil (Clay, Sand or Gravel, Calx, Moorish or Mossy Soil, Loam or Black Rich Earth) / Volume III: Portrait-Frontispiece of Francis Duke of Bedford, 546 pages with 1 full-page "Plan of W. Hunter's Feeding Byre at Eskmont" (with a Dung Court), 1 Text-Illustration showing "A Machine for Pounding Limestone", 1 full-page plate showing the phenomenon of "Floating Land" - Farming next to a River, 1 Text-Illustration of "The Argyleshire Plough, invented by Alexander Campbell", 1 extra-large fold-out plan of a Table showing Price-Developments of British Corn, Barley, Wheat, Peas, Bear, Bigg exported, 1 full-page plate showcasing the architectural structure of a Thrashing Mill Barn, 1 full-page plate showing the structure of sucessful Embankments. Hardcover / Original, decorative half- leather with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare in this original condition. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. This fantastic publication was a novelty at the beginning of the 19th century, published by influential scottish publisher Archibald David Constable. The Magazine includes some wonderful diagrams and illustrations (see our details in the description) and some of the topics mentioned in detail are for example: Volume I: - General View of the Agriculture of the County of Fife - An Essay on Lime (by a Yorkshire Farmer) - A Rural Sketch if the County of Lancaster - Review of Nottinghamshire Survey - Sheep and Great Farms favourable to Population - Register of the Weather in 1799 Volume II: - Proceedings of the County of Caithness - Agricultural Intelligence (England) - Agricultural Intelligence (Scotland) - Strictures on Farm-Management near London - Of the quantity of Bread Corn required yearly to maintain the Inhabitants of Great Britain - General View of the Agriculture of the County of Argyle - Sketch of a Tour through the Northern Counties of Scotland - Communications on American Husbandry - On the means of encreasing Manure - Bordley's American Husbandry Volume III: - Disadvantages if a Fixed Rotation of Crops - Obstacles arising from Climate - "Experiments and Onservations on the Culture of Potatoes" by Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk - Hints regarding Cattle - On Potatoes - A General View of the Corn Trade and Conr Laws in Great Britain - Account of the Drainage of Loch Coot - Hints on the Improvement of Waste Land - On the Husbandry of the Hindoos [sic] (Hindu's) (From a Letter of an Officer in the British Army in Allahabad in the year 1798) etc. etc. Archibald David Constable (24 February 1774 21 July 1827) was a Scottish publisher, bookseller and stationer. Constable was born at Carnbee, Fife, son of the land steward to the Earl of Kellie. In 1788 Archibald was apprenticed to Peter Hill, an Edinburgh bookseller, based on the High Street south of the Mercat Cross. In 1795 Constable started in business for himself as a dealer in rare books, taking a unit immediately opposite Peter Hill, on the north side of the Mercat Cross. He was then living in a house in Calton village on the edge of Calton Hill. He bought the rights to publish the Scots Magazine in 1801, and John Leyden, the orientalist, became its editor. In 1800 Constable began the Farmer's Magazine, and in November 1802 he issued the first number of the Edinburgh Review, under the nominal editorship of Sy.
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