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Important Hints and Discoveries in Agriculture; or, A New System of Farming in General: Whereby Such Essential Advantage is Gained over the General System in Practice, as is Judged Nearly to Equal the Rent, or (comparatively speaking) Almost to Reduce a Farm to No Rent! And also Employing the Poor, and Reducing the Rates
by C. Drury
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for the Author; and sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1818. 4th Edition . Very Good Minus. 5.5 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21.5 cm). Enlarged and improved fourth edition. Half calf leather binding with marbled boards. Gilt decorated spine with leather title label. Wear and heavy rubbing to boards. Slight cracking to joints but securely bound. Rubbing to spine. Complete with the engraved frontis. Foxing to frontis and title page, scattered foxing to text. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper (Harold Newgass). Very scarce. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo, [2], iv, [2], pp17-304, [3]
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- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1211A013
- Title
- Important Hints and Discoveries in Agriculture; or, A New System of Farming in General: Whereby Such Essential Advantage is Gained over the General System in Practice, as is Judged Nearly to Equal the Rent, or (comparatively speaking) Almost to Reduce a Farm to No Rent! And also Employing the Poor, and Reducing the Rates
- Author
- C. Drury
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for the Author; and sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1818
- Size
- 5.5 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21.5 cm)
- Keywords
- , Farming_Rural
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Bindings; Farming & Rural;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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- Spine
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- Bookplate
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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