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Hale’s body of Husbandry.
4. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 32. no. 25, as above.
HALE,
Thomas.
A Compleat Body of Husbandry. Containing Rules for performing, in the most profitable Manner, the whole Business of the Farmer
and Country Gentleman, in Cultivating, Planting and Stocking of Land . . . Compiled from the Original Papers of the late Thomas Hale, Esq; And enlarged by many new and useful Communications on practical Subjects, From the Collections of Col. Stevenson, Mr.
Randolph, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Storey, Mr. Osborne, the Reverend Mr. Turner, and others . . . Illustrated with a great Number
of Cuts . . . Published by his Majesty’s Royal Licence and Authority. Vol. I [-IV]. The
Second Edition.
London: Printed for
Tho. Osborne,
Tho. Trye, and
S. Crowder and Co.,
1758.
S509 .H16
4 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 208 leaves, engraved frontispiece by J. Mynde; vol. II, 216 leaves; vol. III, 256 leaves; vol. IV, 216 leaves; engraved plates in each volume; publishers’ advertisement
on the last page of vol. IV.
McDonald, page 210.
This edition not in Bradley.
Not in Loudon.
At the end of vol. IV (verso of Dd
i) is a reprint by the Proprietors of an order received by them from the Churchwardens and Overseers of Lanteglos,
juxta Camelford, Cornwall, dated March 6. 1757, for a copy of the first edition “to be bound in rough leather, and clasped; and
that the same be chained in the Vestry-Room, for the Public Use of the Parishoners, to be consulted by them on all Occasions,
in that Place, and not elsewhere . . .” A note by the Proprietors adds that “Any Nobleman, or Gentleman, desirous to make
a Present of this Book of Agriculture and Farming to his Parish, may, by applying to any one of the Proprietors afore-mentioned,
be supplied with it in the Manner the above Parish require theirs to be done.”
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
11/6.
Thomas Hale, English agriculturalist. The first edition of this work, in folio, was published in 1756. An entry for that edition in Jefferson’s
manuscript catalogue has been partially erased.
[700]
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Tull’s horsehoeing husbandry.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, in the Index, but not in the body of the work. Not in the 1831 and later catalogues.
TULL,
Jethro.
Horse-Hoeing Husbandry: or, An Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage. Designed to introduce a new Method of Culture;
whereby the Produce of Land will be increased, and the usual Expence lessened. Together with accurate Descriptions and Cuts
of the Instruments employed in it. By Jethro Tull, Esq; of Shalborne in Berkshire. The
Fourth Edition, very carefully corrected. To which is prefixed, A new Preface by the Editors, addressed to all concerned in Agriculture.
London: Printed for
A. Millar.
M. DCC. LXII. [1762.]
S603 .T915
8vo. 224 leaves, folded engraved plates.
McDonald, page 209.
This edition not in Loudon.
Calf, gilt back. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. On the title-page is written
Tho. Jefferson Esq., and the autograph signature of A. Pollok.
Missing at the time of the sale of Jefferson’s library to Congress (though probably included in the sale price, as Tull’s
name is in the index of the 1815 catalogue), this volume was eventually acquired by the Library of Congress in 1942, one hundred
and twenty-seven years after the original purchase.
