MARSHALL, William.

The Rural Economy of Norfolk: comprising the Management of Landed Estates, and the present practice of husbandry in that county ... The second edition ...

London, G. Nicol, G. G. & J. Robinson, and J. Debrett, 1795. Two vols, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1] blank, [3] Advertisement to the second edition, [1] blank, [1] contents, [1] blank, 400; ix, [1] blank, [6] contents, 392, [4] index; upper joint to vol. II cracking. Second edition, first published in 1787, of the first and second of the eventual twelve-volume set of county surveys. Goldsmiths’ 16253; Kress B.2993; Perkins 1150; Rothamsted, p. 101. [offered together with:] —————. The Rural Economy of Yorkshire. Comprising the Management of Landed Estates, and the present practice of husbandry in the agricultural districts of that county … The second edition … London, G. Nicol, G. G. & J. Robinson, and J. Debrett, 1796.Two vols, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 373, [1] blank + advertisement leaf; xx, 358, [20] index, [2] ‘Table of reference from the first to the second edition’; with an engraved map in vol. I. Second edition, first published in 1788, of the third and fourth volumes of the set. Kress B.3235; Rothamsted, p. 101; this edition not in Goldsmiths’ or Perkins. [and:] —————. The Rural Economy of the West of England: including Devonshire; and parts of Somersetshire, Dorsetsetshire, and Cornwall. Together with minutes in practice ... London, G. Nicol, G. G. & J. Robinson, and J. Debrett, 1796.Two vols, 8vo, pp. [2], xxiv, 332; xxiv, 358 + [30] index, [3] advertisements, [1] blank; with a double-page frontispiece map; natural paper flaw to L2 resulting in two small holes, just touching a couple of letters. First edition of the ninth and tenth volumes of the set. Goldsmiths’ 16636; Kress B.3234; Perkins 1153; Rothamsted, p. 101. [and:] [—————]. A Review of the Landscape, a didactic poem: also of an Essay on the Picturesque: together with Practical Remarks on Rural Ornament. London, G. Nicol, G. G. & J. Robinson, and J. Debrett, 1795.8vo, pp. xv, [1] blank; 275, [1] blank; ink inscription ‘Vaughan’ to the title. First edition of a review of and spirited attack on Payne Knight’s The Landscape and Uvedale Price’s Essays on the Picturesque, in which Marshall shows himself a staunch follower of Lancelot Brown. Kress B.2992; not in Goldsmiths’, Perkins or Rothamsted. A fine set of four works by Marshall, from the library of Sir Robert Vaughan, Bart., with his booklabel, attractively bound in contemporary full catspaw calf, a little surface wear in places, spines decorated gilt, with gilt morocco lettering-pieces. William Marshall (1745–1818) – ‘one of the few really noteworthy English writers on agriculture’ (Palgrave) – wrote a series of studies of farming in English counties published between 1787 and 1798. He never obtained the celebrity of his contemporary Arthur Young though his investigations were reported at greater length. Marshall himself referred with derision to Young’s ‘transient’ tours and explained that his own more thorough method of inquiry was to obtain a position in a district as an agent or estate manager and to learn while working.

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