Author: Mavor, William
Title: General View of the Agriculture of Berkshire Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement
Description: Printed for Sherwood, Neel, and Jones, 1813. Hardcover. xii, 540p. folding hand coloured map of Berkshire and another of the River Thames and another uncoloured of the strata of the different lines in Inland Navigation between London and Bristol. . Many engraved plates - some folding. s called for.This General Report has chapters on the Geographical State, State of Property, Buildings, Occupation, Implements of Husbandry, , Enclosing, Arable Land, Grass land, Gardens and Orchards, Woods and Planatations, Wastes, Improvements, Live Stock, Rural Economy, Political Economy, and Means to Inmprovement. Book bound in half leather. Text block sound but both boards detached and olast page torn without loss - repairable. Backstrip wanting. Minimal foxing and evidence of old water damage on edges of some plates - not obtrusive.Blind stamps and neat small stamp of Birmingham Free Libraries unobtrusively on many plates. One short fold split on Berkshire palate. Much better than it may sound.! But needs rebacked. See scans and email for many more. . Good +

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