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 3045401.3
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.3 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: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "Davenport Talbot" on recto of first free end-paper. Binding: eighteenth century gilt-tooled sprinkled calf; decorative tooling on edges of boards; gilt tooling, title label reading "Ellis's Modern husbandman" and volume number 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)