Price: £625
Subject: Antiquarian
Published Date: 1729
Stock Number: 74260
(Your basket is currently empty)Scotland; And that in Sixteen Years at farthest. By a Lover of his Country.
Description: FIRST EDITION, uniformly a little toned and occasionally spotted, folding plate with a small marginal tear, no loss; pp. lii, [4], 355 (i.e. 335), [1, errata], 1 folding plate; contemporary full panelled calf, alternately speckled and plain, spine on raised bands, red label; scratch to the upper cover, corners and spine ends bumped with some small loss to the foot of the spine, withal an attractive copy.Publication Details: Edinburgh: Printed and Sold at Mr Freebairn's Shop [...] and at Mr. Millar's [...] in the Strand, London. 1729
Notes: Scottish husbandry was long dominated by reliably unchanging methods and hereditary wisdom, meaning that Scottish agricultural writing was relatively sparse until the 1720s. In this decade various farming boards and co-operatives were established on both a national and a local level, and these groups began to communicate with one another and the wider agricultural world. Here, in one of the earliest works on this topic, William Mackintosh of Borlum 'recommends that the recently convened Honourable Society in Flax should interest itself in farming, encourage enclosure, supply proper flax seed t...more
Bibliography: (ESTC: T33425; Gilbert A13)
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