The horse-hoing husbandry: . or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation. Wherein is shewn a method of introducing a sort of vineyard-culture into the corn-fields, in order to increase their product, and diminish the common expence; by the use of instruments described in cuts.
Jethro Tull (1674-1741)
Category
Books
Date
1733
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3109189.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], x, 200, [2] p., [6] plates . ill., plates (fold.) . fol.. Bound (2) with his Supplement to the Essay on horse-hoing husbandry (1736). Loosely inserted: typed catalogue card. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (eighteenth-century): Roberti Smyth Baronetti. (Franks 27487?). Binding: Eighteenth-century full mottled calf over boards; gilt-rolled edges; rebacked in calf; gilt spine title; sewn on six raised bands.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Jethro Tull (1674-1741)