An Abridgment of the Six Weeks, and Six Months Tours...through the Southern, and Northern Counties...
Folding engraved frontis. 15, [1], 328 pp. 8vo, cont. sprinkled calf, spine gilt. Dublin: S. Powell, 1771.
First edition of this amalgamation of Young’s Six Weeks Tour through the Southern Counties (1768) and Six Month’ Tour through the North of England (1769). Baker (d. 1775) published several works suggested by Young under the auspices of the Dublin Society. “Arthur Young thought all these books very valuable…and would have been pleased to edit them for publication in England, where they were very scarce, if he could have found a bookseller prepared to guarantee him against loss, but he could not do... More