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TULL, Jethro. The Horse-Hoeing Husbandry; or, a Treatise on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation, wherein is taught a Method of introducing a sort of Vineyard Culture into the Corn-Fields, in order to increase their Product and diminish the Common Expense. To which is prefixed, an Introductory, explanatory of some Circumstances connected with the History and Division of the Work; and containing an Account of certain Experiments of recent date, by William Cobbett. London: William Cobbett, 1829. Second Cobbett edition. Tall 8vo., orig. cloth-backed paper boards, printed paper spine label, 466pp. Front inner hinge cracked, a few marks to upper board, paper spine label chipped with loss of text, outer hinges rubbed, but certainly a better than very good copy.
Jethro Tull [1674-1741] was a pioneering agriculturalist whose novel approach to farming helped to further the eighteenth-century British Agricultural Revolution. His Horse-Hoeing Husbandry was first published in 1731.