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2 volumes, 4to., pp: xx,i-xx,[1]-618; viii,[583]-1265[1], 87 engraved plates of which 26 are hand coloured, complete as list in each volume, including a folding plan frontispiece to volume 1 & hand coloured plate of a 'Hereford Bull' to volume 2, with newspaper cuttings of husbandry interest, 'Mushrooms in February' etc. neatly tipped in to the endpapers, preliminary leaves & blank verso to title page & dedication page of both volumes, marbled endpapers & armorial bookplate of 'Pauncefort Duncombe of Brickhill Manor, Bucks.' to each pastedown endpaper. Pasted in to the front endpaper in volume 1 & the rear in volume 2 is a broadside or flyer 'Hints to the Working Classes' giving reasons why our exporting manufacturers demand a repeal of the Corn-Laws . equalise the price of English with the price of Continental Labour, which is stated by the Manchester Repealers as Under . followed by a list of wages in various European countries . being an average of 3s/10d. per week of 79 hours. [Dodd, Printer, Woburn.] n.d. (circa 1845), 209x174mm, very good. No copy of this Broadside traced. The verso of the final leaf in volume 2 contains publisher's advertisement, with a loosely inserted folio sheet in volume 1, folded into four, handwritten in ink, being 'A Statement of Crops & Hoe Stock on a Small Estate the Property of J. L. Morrice, Esq' containing in cultivation (arable & pasture) 95 acres - Oct' 8th-1823, an interesting 4pp handwritten detailed account of the farming activities in an early 19th century small estate. The 2 volume set bound in contemporary full diced calf, spines with gilt ruled raised bands, gilt lettered direct 'Dickson's Practical Agriculture' and vol. no., double gilt ruled border to covers with gilt inner dentelles, light wear otherwise handsome & very good indeed. Richard Watson Dickson, M.D., born in Lancashire 1759, studied medicine first in England and then at St. Andrew's University. Married twice, he became an authority on agriculture. His work on Practical Agriclture became the standard work for decades. He was in the debtor's prison by 1812 and died in 1824, having given great service to the country, which went unrewarded. The bookplate is of Sir Everard Philip Digby Pauncefort Duncombe (1885-1971) of Brickhill Manor which was also the home of previous generations & was demolished in 1935. He was educated at the Royal Agricultural College. Seller Inventory # 235
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