“
Young’s Rural Socrates 8
vo.
[
this is sometimes bound up with the former].”
“
the former” was Young’s
Farmer’s Guide, and was supplied by Milligan on April 7 [no. 706].
Arthur Young, 1741-1820, English agriculturalist and farmer, was in correspondence with Washington and other landowners and farmers in
America. The first edition of Rural Oeconomy was published in London in 1770.
Hans Kaspar Hirzel, 1725-1803, Swiss physician and President of the Society of Natural Sciences at Zurich, originally wrote the Rural Socrates
in German.
Benjamin Vaughan, 1751-1835, British politician and political economist, born in Jamaica, was the first editor of the works of Benjamin Franklin,
and was in constant correspondence with Jefferson on scientific and other subjects.
[705]
18
Young’s Farmer’s guide.
1815 Catalogue, page 33. no. 32
b, as above, 2 v 8vo.
[YOUNG,
Arthur.]
The Farmer’s Guide in Hiring and Stocking Farms . . . Also, plans of Farm-yards, and sections of the necessary buildings .
. . In
Two Volumes. By the Author of the Farmer’s Letters.
Dublin: printed for
J. Exshaw,
1771.
2 vol. 8vo. No copy of this edition was obtained for collation.
Halkett and Laing II, page 267.
Jones,
Books printed in Ireland, page 27 (with the price, 10/10).
This edition not in Anderson,
Bibliography of Arthur Young.
Included in the list of books missing from his library which Jefferson sent to
Milligan on March 28, 1815, with a request that he procure copies and send them in, were:
"Young’s farmer’s guide 8
vo."
"Young’s Rural Socrates 8
vo.
[this is sometimes bound up with the former]."
Milligan supplied a copy of “
1 Young’s Farmer’s Guide” on April 7, price $
3.00.
The first edition of this book was printed in London in 1770.
[706]
19
Boardley’s Sketches on Rotations of crops.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 31. no. 43, [
should be “42”
as per NPT--
Ed.] as above.
[BORDLEY,
John Beale.]
Sketches on Rotations of Crops, and other Rural Matters. To which are annexed Intimations on Manufactures; on the Fruits of
Agriculture; and on new Sources of Trade, interfering with Products of the United States of America in Foreign Markets.
Philadelphia: Printed by
Charles Cist.
M, DCC, XCVII. [1797.]
AC901 .W7 Vol. 34
8vo. 40 leaves; followed by a printed slip, woodcut illustrations; the
Sketches end on page [66] and are signed J. B. B. The
Intimations begin on page [67] and are signed B., with date January 1794; the slip is dated January 23, 1797, and is relative to an ice-house
at Gloucester Point.
Halkett and Laing V, 289.
Sabin 6415.
Evans 30103.
The first edition of this book was published by Cist in 1792. In 1795 Jefferson was still unaware of the authorship. On February
5 of that year he wrote to Madison at Philadelphia: “
Congress drawing to a close, I must trouble you with a bundle of little commissions . . .
"
2. a pamphlet entitled ‘Sketches on rotations of crops’, to be had I believe at Dobson’s. the author in a note pa. 43. mentions
some former publication of his, which I should be glad to have also, as I am sure it must be good. who is the author? is it
Peters. I do not think it is Logan.
”
There is no note as to a former publication on page 43 of this edition.
