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hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

1798. First edition. G. Nicol, London. 1798. Full tan tree-calf with gilt type to contrasting red title-piece to spine; page edges speckled with red. 597 pages. Folding map of Middlesex and folding table both present but lacks folding map of Linfield Chase. Index. Sl. wear to head of spine + some water damage (?) to surface of calf of lower board.

First edition. Printed for B. MacMillan for G. Nicol, Pall Mall. 1798. Octavo. Half title, title, xvii, (1: errata), 597pp. 2 hand coloured folding maps, one folding table. Printed note to the contents: "The Author intended to have inserted a plan of an orchard ... but as it turned out to be inconvenient in point of size, and being of small importance, the idea was given up". Later utilitarian quarter calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands with uneven black rules, gilt lettering, sl. rubbed to head and foot; slightly marked cloth boards. All edges speckled. Apart from a little light sporadic foxing a nice crisp clean copy, firmly bound. Priced to accommodate cost of rebacking which would greatly enhance the volume.
John Middleton (1751 – 1833), surveyor, pioneering and inventive agriculturist, commissioner for enclosures. "The best of all the [board's] surveys of English Counties'". ODNB. An all-encompassing work in the spirit of the age, including the state of property, commons and… Leer más

London: Printed by B. McMillan, 1807. Second edition, xvi, 704 + 4pp., of adverts, coloured folding engraved map, engravings within the text, one folding table, orig. boards, printed title label to spine, upper cover holding by cords, lower joint starting, uncut, overall a nice copy in original state.

London: Printed by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813. Second edition, second issue, 8vo, xvi, 704 + 4pp., of adverts, coloured folding engraved map, engravings within the text, one folding table, orig. calf calf, marbled boards, spine labels. Provenance: From the library of The Royal Agricultural Society of England.

London: Printed by B. McMillan, 1807. Second edition, xvi, 704 + 4pp., of adverts, coloured folding engraved map, one additional folding engraved map, engravings within the text, one folding table, cont. calf, marbled boards, rebacked, partial orig. spine laid-down. Provenance: From the library of The Royal Agricultural Society of England with their bookplate.

London: Printed by B. McMillan, 1798. First edition, 8vo (215 x 135 mm), xvii, [3], 597, [1]pp., coloured folding engraved map (a little browned and offset), one further hand-coloured folding map, engravings within the text, one folding table, later buckram, leather spine label. Provenance: From the Royal Agriculture Society Library, but with no stamps.

Two hand-colored folding engraved maps & one folding printed table. xvii pp., 1 leaf of errata, 597 pp. 8vo, cont. speckled calf, red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: Printed by B. Macmillan for G. Nicol et al., 1798. First edition and rather scarce. Middleton (1751-1833), land surveyor and agriculturalist, was a member of the London Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. The present work has long been considered to be the best of all of the Board of Agriculture's surveys of the English counties (see ODNB). Middleton was a prolific writer on rural matters and was inspired by a wish to improve the lot of his fellow countrymen. Fine copy.