Miscellaneous Dissertations on Rural Subjects.
Three folding engraved plates. xvi, 431 pp. 8vo, cont. calf, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: G. Robinson, 1775.
First edition of a somewhat scarce book. “Francis Forbes, who was a great protagonist of the ‘New husbandry,’ was writing about it at about the same date [as Lord Kames and Cuthbert Clark] because he thought it necessary, and the most agreeable means of satisfying the public of its value was for authors of credit to make known their extensive experience and successful practice of culture for a long series of years. To do this he produced no... More