Agricultural Writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young 1200-1800. Reproductions in facsimile and extracts from their actual writings, enlarged and revised from articles which have appeared in "The Field" from 1903 to 1907, to which is added an exhaustive bibliography
by McDonald, D
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Pencil note on front free endpaper states : "C H Warren's copy". Covers a little rubbed and spine ends slightly wo
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About This Item
Horace Cox, London, first edition, 1908. Cloth over bevelled boards, gilt cover device, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, 8vo,. 228 pp, plates. Approximately 500 entries. McDonald gives interesting accounts of the various writers, with a great number of facsimile pages, title-pages and extracts from their works. Pencil note on front free endpaper states : "C H Warren's copy". Covers a little rubbed and spine ends slightly worn, top edge duststained, Good.
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- Title
- Agricultural Writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young 1200-1800. Reproductions in facsimile and extracts from their actual writings, enlarged and revised from articles which have appeared in "The Field" from 1903 to 1907, to which is added an exhaustive bibliography
- Author
- McDonald, D
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over bevelled boards, gilt cover device, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, 8vo,
- Book Condition
- Used - Pencil note on front free endpaper states : "C H Warren's copy". Covers a little rubbed and spine ends slightly wo
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Horace Cox, London, first edition, 1908
- Date Published
- 1908
- Pages
- 228 pp, plates
- Keywords
- Agriculture Agricultural Writers Great Britain Bibliography. Bio-bibliography. McDonald, Donald
- Bookseller catalogs
- Agriculture (Bibliographies);
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