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Professionally rebound in brown antique calf with back title plate, gilt banding and title on the spine. Embossed 'cambridge' panel on both boards.First edition of the author's magnum opus. These volumes are beautifully rebound into one book by Mr. Brian Cole. The interiors are clean and appear to have been printed yesterday. Without doubt this is the undisputed most magnificent copy of these rare five volumes.
A NEW SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE. Being A Complete Body of Husbandry and Gardening In all the Parts of them. Viz. Husbandry in the FIELD, And Its Several Improvements...In FIVE BOOKS...
London: for Tho. Woodward, 1726. First edition. Laurence's "most ambitious literary project..." (Henrey p. 421). With a handsome etched frontispiece by van de Gucht showing the Prince of Wales's Richmond Lodge or Ormonde Lodge. The work is dedicated to the Princess of Wales, later Queen Caroline to George II, who would eventually improve Richmond Lodge with Charles Bridgeman.. The lodge no longer exists. (Henrey,p.… Read More