Billingsley, John

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Somerset

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by R. Cruttwell, for the Author Bath 1797 Second Edition with Observations on the Means of its Improvement. Drawn up in the Year 1795 for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement... And now Re-printed with considerable Additions and Amendments, Accompanied with the Remarks of some respectable Gentlemen and Farmers in the County. Folding engraved frontispiece map of the county, folding engraved plan for the draining of the turf bogs, and plate of Weldon'd "Caisson-lock". 8vo. [225 x 142 x 324 mm]. [16], x, [11]-320 pp. Unopened and in the original light blue boards, drab paper spine with a printed paper label. (Some wear to the spine and label chipped). With the half-title but lacking a blank fly-leaf at the end. A fine copy in original condition. First published as a preliminary quarto report in 1794. The author of this survey, one of the best of the series, was a professional farmer from Ashwick Grove, near Shepton Mallet. The final 4pp present a separate "Description of Robert Weldon's Hydrostatick or Caisson-Lock, which is now building and nearly completed on the Somerset Coal-Canal near Coombe-Hay, about three miles from Bath".

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