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Subtitle: containing: The manner of raising and dressing flax, and hemp. : Also, the whole method of bleaching or whitening linen-cloth. : Likewise, observations on the management of cows and sheep. : The manner of raising radishes, turnips, cabbage, and other such plants. : And an enquiry, concerning the materials that may be used in making paper. : With, valuable dissertations on other useful subjects.
By: Collected from the Dictionary of arts and sciences, and from various modern authors. ; [One line in Latin from Virgil, with one line translation]
Contributors: Smollett, Tobias George, 1721-1771.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 15597.
Publisher: Printed, by Robert Bell, next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-Street, Philadelphia.
Published: 1777
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Flax.; Industrial arts.; Linen.
Notes: Half-title: Select essays: on raising and dressing flax and hemp; and on bleaching linen-cloth: with valuable dissertations on other useful subjects.

"Several of the following essays are translated from a periodical work, published at Paris, under the title of Journal oeconomique; the translation being undertaken by Doctor Tobias Smollett ..."--Preface.

Signatures: pi⁴ A-O⁴ Q-X⁴.

Error in paging: p. 97-104 misnumbered 79-86.

Bookseller's advertisements, p. [7-8], 1st count, and p. [160].

Evans 15597.

Rink, E.  Technical Americana, 1097.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15597).