[YOUNG, Arthur].

Rural Oeconomy: or, Essays on the Practical Parts of Husbandry ... To which is added, the Rural Socrates: being memoirs of a Country Philosopher. By the Author of the Farmer's Letters ...

London,T. Becket, 1770. 8vo, pp. [iv], 520; remnants of bookplate to the front pastedown; some mildstaining or offsetting in places, more so from the turn-ins onto the initial and final few leaves; contemporary full calf, somewhat scuffed and scraped, joints cracked at head and foot, gilt morocco lettering-piece to spine. First edition. ‘Young’s second book in 1770 was entitled Rural Oeconomy … Eleven essays comprised about two-thirds of the volume, with the remainder an English translation, presumably by Young, of a French translation of a famous little German book by Hans Casper Hirzel published at Berne in 1761. The “Rural Socrates”, the English title of the work, described the agriculture of a Swiss farmer popularly known as Kliogg, many of whose practices and principles resembled Young’s’ (Gazley). Gazley notes that the present work resembled The Farmer’s Letters, in style and content: he particularly points out the importance of the fifth essay, in which Young discussed the current progress of agricultural methods, and the final essay in which he discusses the advent of agricultural journals.Einaudi 6095; Goldsmiths’ 10638; Higgs 4872; Kress 6766; Perkins 1995; Rothamsted, p. 163; see Gazley, The Life of Arthur Young, pp. 55–7.

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