Rural improvements: or, essays on the most rational methods of improving estates; accomodated to the soil, climate, and circumstances of England:

A Land Owner (Wimpey, Joseph, 1739-1808)

Published by J Dodsley, London, 1775

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Title continues "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, xvi 528 xv [1]pp, contemporary calf (worn, corners bumped, upper joint split and board almost loose, lower joint starting, spined cracked vertically), text block cracked between pages 274 and 275, faint waterstain in the top margin of c30 pages, small ink stamp on front pastedown (W Rooke), 8vo (215x135mm), ESTC T133887.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rural improvements: or, essays on the most rational methods of improving estates; accomodated to the soil, climate, and circumstances of England:
• Publisher: J Dodsley, London
• Publication Date: 1775
• Language: English
• Binding: Full-Leather
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Eighteenth Century
  • Antiquarian