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The Farmer's Calendar. Containing the Business necessary to be performed on various kinds of Farms during every Month of the Year. The Eighth Edition greatly enlarged and improved. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
18097201Printed for Richard Phillips Bridge- Street Blackfriars 1809. 8vo. Eighth Edition with 2 engraved plans moderately foxed endpapers mildly browned some minor worming mainly marginal and not materially affecting text to last twenty or so leaves neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso facing title; contemporary full calf back ruled in gilt roan label lettered in gilt covers moderately age-marked a very good remarkably clean firm copy. With twenty appendices and full general index. The appendices include numerous conversion tables recipes and directions catalogue of farming implements with prices suggestions for a farmer's library tables of old and new names for agricultural chemicals and preparations and similar matter. First published in 1771 Young's 'Farmer's Calendar' was an immediate success swiftly establishing itself as a standard reference. Successively enlarged and improved it grew in stature until being entirely rewritten by Chalmers for the twenty-first edition of 1862. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT CLEAN COPY. See Perkins p.277. Printed for Richard Phillips, Bridge- Street Blackfriars, unknown
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