The modern husbandman, or the practice of farming ... by William Ellis.
William Ellis (1700-1758)
Category
Books
Date
1744
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3045401
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. 8vo. Shelved and bound uniformly with various other works by Ellis. The dates of the individual parts vary from those recorded by ESTC; Lacock copy has the parts for January to April dated 1744, May dated 1745, title-page and preliminaries for June missing, July with an undated title-page, August to September dated 1745, and October to December dated 1743. Provenance: manuscript inscription "John Talbot [i.e. ?John Ivory Talbot, ?1691-1772] 1746 in 8 Volumes" on title-page for January in vol. 1. Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "Davenport Talbot" on recto of first free end-paper to all volumes. Binding: eighteenth century gilt-tooled sprinkled calf; decorative tooling on edges of boards; gilt tooling, title labels reading "Ellis's Modern husbandman" and volume numbers on spine; text block edges sprinkled red.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.
Makers and roles
William Ellis (1700-1758)