The farmer's guide in hiring and stocking farms
Subtitle: containing an examination of many subjects of great importance both to the common husbandman in hiring a farm, and to a gentleman on taking the whole or part of his estate into his own hands : particularly, the signs whereby to judge of land : the points to be attended to in hiring a farm : the quantity of land of every sort proportioned to a given sum of money : the most advantageous method of disposing of any sum from 50 l. to 20,000 l. in husbandry on cultivated or uncultivated soils : the means of rendering agriculture as profitable to gentlemen as to common farmers, and as beneficial a possession as any other : hints to those gentlemen who farm for pleasure alone : also, plans of farm-yards, and sections of the necessary buildings : in two volumes
By: by the author of the Farmer's letters
Contributors: Jerry and Gene Jones Jefferson Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for J. Exshaw, H. Saunders, W. Sleater, D. Chamberlaine, J. Potts, J. Williams, J. Hoey, J. Milliken, J. Porter, and T. Walker
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Subjects: Agriculture; Early works to 1800
Notes: First edition published London, 1770.

Vol. 1: [2], ii, vi, [2], 336 p. ([2], 4th group of paging, is a blank leaf); v. 2: iv, 380 p., VIII leaves of plates (2 folded).

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. Has inscriptions: E.J. Hathaway, Rossville, Illinois, 1952; Wm. Burgh; N.G.L. Child, Peckers, 1917. With the bookseller's label of Blackwell's, Oxford, England.

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 706

ESTC N9712

LC copy gift of Jerry and Gene Jones, 11 Feb. 2000.