Venerate the Plough: A History of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture 1785-1985 Unknown - 1985

U.S.A.: Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1985. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. xii, 124pp. Limited to 500 copies. Slight wear to extremities. Extensive message to free front end paper. Contents clean. A pleasing copy. (Q41). Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

U S A: PSPA, 1985. Hardback. First Edition. Ex-Royal Society of Arts Library sticker with the words Withdrawn From RSA to inside cover. Grey cloth with black decoration and lettering. During the two hundred years since our beginning, several brief histories of the Society have been produced. The first account of the Society's early years was written by John Hare Powel in 1829; he was followed by a succession of authors who focussed on the early national period. The present history is the first by a professional historian, yet it is by no means a dull theoretical tract stuffed with sociological jargon. Quite the opposite, in fact. The author, while basing his argument on a mass of detailed evidence, has produced an entertaining work which, once started, I found increasingly difficult to put down. The Society is proud to mark its bicentennial with this fascinating account of our past. (Frank R. Wallace Jr. President). 124 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History,… Leer más

Philadelphia PSPA, 1985, hardcover. Illustrated. Includes appendixes of names and manuscript collections. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good (bump to top cover edge; no jacket issued). ISBN 0961426705

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. hardcover. Like New. 0x0x0. Book is in excellent condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.