The Husbandry of the Ancients.
One engraved plate. xxiii, 527 pp.; vi, 494 pp. Two vols. 8vo, cont. calf (a few unimportant binding defects), spines gilt, red morocco lettering pieces on spines. Edinburgh: J. Dickson & W. Creech, 1788.
First edition of the author’s most important book; it was published posthumously by one of the author’s daughters who has provided here a biography of her father. Dickson (1721-76), wrote a number of practical works on agriculture which described techniques adapted to the soil and climate of Scotland. In the present work, Dickson “collects the agricultural processes of the ancients under their proper heads, and compares... More