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A CHARMING AND VALUABLE WORK - HARTE, Walter Essays on husbandry. Essay I. A general introduction, showing, that agriculture is the basis and support of all flourishing communities; - the antient and present state of that useful art; - agriculture, manufactures, trade, and commerce justly harmonized; - of the right cultivation of our colonies; - together with the defects, omissions, and possible improvements in English husbandry. Essay II. An account of some experiments tending to improve the culture of lucerne … To which is prefixed, an Epistle dedicatory in verse. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. London: W Frederick, W Johnston, 1770 8vo, 5 engraved plates, several woodcuts in the text, xxvi + (ii) + 213 + 232 + (2)pp, including the final leaf of advertisements, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, spine gilt. An excellent crisp copy. Williams II, 42. Goldsmiths 10629. Higgs 4870. Kress 6736. Perkins 758. Rothamsted p.68. See also Fussell, More old English Farming Books, 1950, pp.45-46. First published anonymously in 1764, Harte's Husbandry won considerable contemporary approval. "In 1764 Harte published a volume of Essays on Husbandry, of which a second edition ... appeared in 1770 - a charming and valuable work. Johnson confessed that "his [Harte's] Husbandry is good", and Chesterfield praised its style [Letters, iv. 214]. Arthur Young, in his Six Weeks Tour through the Southern Counties, published in 1768, describes a visit to "my very excellent friend", Harte, at Bath. "His conversation", Young says, "on the subject of husbandry is as full of experience and as truly solid as his genuine and native humour, extensive knowledge of mankind, and admirable philanthropy, and pleasing and instructive"." [DNB] Harte's Essays provide not only a view of English agriculture in the mid-18th century, but a comparative assessment of European and North American agriculture as well. To this 2nd edition, which the author claims was "corrected and enlarged", is added a 2-page poem, dated July 20, 1768, called Verses sent to a Person of Quality, with the Essays on Husbandry. It seems highly likely that the "Person of Quality" was the Earl of Chesterfield to whom Harte was chaplain. Keywords :- agriculture Price - £175 |
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