A Plan and Description of a Drill Plough, which sows all Kinds of Grain or...
Three folding engraved plates. 32 pp. 8vo, cont. half-calf & marbled boards (upper joint a little cracked but strong), flat spine lettered in gilt. London: T. Hookham, 1786.
First edition and very rare; WorldCat locates no copy in North America. Following Jethro Tull’s invention and perfection of the seed drill, there were numerous others who developed modifications and further improvements. The text of this anonymous work describes the construction of William Winlaw’s drill ploughs in great detail — as illustrated on the fine plates. The ploughs were available from “Winlaw, Engine-maker, Margaret Street, Cavendish Square.” He also invented a very successful threshing machine... More