[Rarebooks] fa: ARTHUR YOUNG - SIX WEEKS TOUR THROUGH SOUTHERN ENGLAND AND WALES - 1772

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[Arthur Young:] 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 letter. London: Printed for W. Strahan; W. Nicoll, No. 51, in St. Paul's Church-Yard [et al], MDCCLXXII [1772]. Third edition, "corrected and enlarged," 8vo (22 cm), in early/period tree calf, rebacked with the original gilt-tooled spine laid down, modern spine label; xii, [26] pp. (bound without the publisher's adverts at the end); 3 engraved plates, one of which is folding.

Observations on England and Wales made while the author was searching for a farm on which to implement his schemes of husbandry and horticulture. Naturally, they therefore have an agricultural focus. This third edition was the first to have three copper-engraved plates; earlier editions had only one plate or only in-text woodcuts. Binding with wear to the corners and spine ends; contents age-toned, browning to the title-page and to the margins of the text block, visible damp-stain to the corners, most noticeable on the earlier leaves, occasional spotting, else clean and sound, firmly bound.