Author: CULLYER (John):
Title: The Gentleman & Farmer's Assistant; Containing, first, Tables for Finding the Content of any Piece of Land, from dimensions taken in yards. Second, Tables, Shewing the Width required for an Acre, in any Square Piece of Land, From One to Five Hundred Yards, in Length. Third, Tables, Shewing the Number of Loads that will Manure an Acre of Land, By knowing the Distance of the Heaps. Fourth, a Table for Measuring Thatcher's Work, from one to sixty-four feet long, And from One to Twenty-Five Feet High. The Third Edition.
Description: Norwich: Printed by and for Stevenson and Matchett, and J. Scatcherd..., [no date]. [c. 1800]. Square 12mo (in 6s), 122 x 112 mms., pp. 144 [145 -148 adverts], including half-title, contempoary sheepskin; front cover very slightly wormed, but a very good copy with the ownership inscription on the half-title, "Thomas Watson/ 1801." Also signed by Cullyer on page 7 with date of 27 July 1800. Cullyer published this work in 1795, and a second edition appeared in 1798. It continued to be reprinted and presumably used by and useful to gentlemen and farmers, as it was still in print as late as 1872. Early copies are uncommon: ESTC locates two copies (BL, Rutgers) of the 1795 first edition, eight of the second (BL Bodleian, Cambridge, Glasgow, London, Southampton, St. Andrews; Auckland Public); with this third edition located in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, Rothamsted Experimental Station Library; The Czartoryski Library.

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