The complete farmer: . or, a general dictionary of husbandry, in all its branches; containing the various methods of cultivating and improving every species of land, ... To which is added, the gardener's kalendar, calculated for the use of farmers and country gentlemen. Illustrated with a great variety of folio copper-plates, ... The third edition, corrected and improved. By a Society of Gentlemen, members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.
Society of Gentlemen
Category
Books
Date
1777
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3139508
Summary
Bibliographic description
[708], 111, [5]p. [28] leaves of plates (fold.) . ill.. . 4to.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: G.2.10 [brown ink]; B/5 [pencil]; B.4.13 [dark blue ink]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt fillet border; gilt tooling on spine; gilt rolled turn-in; gilt lettered on green spine-label: Complete farmer. Foot of spine split; bookshoe. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Society of Gentlemen Society for the Encouragment of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce