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TULL (JETHRO)
The Horse-Hoing Husbandry: or, an Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation. Wherein is Shewn a Method of Introducing a Sort of Vineyard-Culture into the Corn-Fields, first folio edition, 1733; Supplement to the Essay on Horse-Hoing Husbandry, FIRST EDITION, 1736, 2 parts in 1 vol.,

14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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TULL (JETHRO)

The Horse-Hoing Husbandry: or, an Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation. Wherein is Shewn a Method of Introducing a Sort of Vineyard-Culture into the Corn-Fields, first folio edition, 1733; Supplement to the Essay on Horse-Hoing Husbandry, FIRST EDITION, 1736, 2 parts in 1 vol., licence leaf before title, 6 folding engraved plates, paper flaw at foot of licence leaf, old ink stains at foot of Supplement title, contemporary panelled calf, gilt panelled spine, joints cracking [Fussell II, p.4; Kress 4153; Norman 2113; PMM 188], folio, for the author, and sold by G. Strahan [-Mr Mills's in King-Street...], 1733-1736; idem, third edition, 7 folding engraved plates, one leaf repaired without loss, slight damage to leading edges of a few leaves just shaving one plate [Kress 5173], A. Millar, 1751--KENT (NATHANIEL) Hints to Gentlemen of Landed Property, 10 engraved plates (some folding), [Fussell II, pp. 101-3; Kress B.3903], G. Nicol, 1799--BRADLEY (RICHARD) New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, 3 parts in 1 vol., mixed edition, titles in red and black (first browned), 7 engraved plates (some folding) [Henrey 494], W. Mears, 1717-1718, contemporary calf, 8vo (4)

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A fine copy of the first illustrated and first folio edition of Jethro Tull's pioneering work on agriculture and the reduction of manual labour through the use of the seed drills, the horse-hoe and improved aeration. This copy has the rarer first edition of the Supplement, with continuous pagination and without the seventh plate (issued with the second edition of the Supplement in 1740).

Provenance: First work, Jacob Astley of Melton Constable, bookplate; Second work, Captain Asher, 5th Foot and Mrs Ashe, ownership signatures on title; Third work, Wiliam Vaughan, Courtfield, Monmouthshire, bookplate. See illustration on preceding page.

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