The Practical Norfolk Farmer

Norwich: Printed and sold by Stevenson, Matchett and Stevenson. 1808.

First edition. 8vo. 222x140mm. pp. [12], 117, [1bl], [7, 1bl], 4pp advertisements of books on farming tipped in. Original blue-grey boards, backed with white paper, original orange label to spine. Spine cracked and worn with loss of c45mm to lower part of spine and loss to label. Corners bumped and some soiling to the boards. Internally very good but with some foxing. Overall an excellent uncut copy in the original boards. A rare book, Worldcat locates eight copies worldwide and only one appears in the auction records. Dedicated to the great Norfolk agricultural innovator, Thomas Coke, this is a month by month guide (starting in September) to all one needed to know about managing a farm at the beginning of the nineteenth century. According to our author, where his book differs from other written about "the Norfolk System of Husbandry" is in its being written "from real practice".