The Rural Economy Of Norfolk : Comprising The Management of Landed Estates, And The Present Practice of Husbandry In That County by Mr Marshall. The Second Edition. In Two Volumes.

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A very good two volume set in the original, matching full leather bindings. 8vo. 8.5" x 5.5" x 1.25". Vol. I. : pp.xvii/ [7pp.]pp.400 + folding map loosely inserted: "East Norfolk"; "Sketch of the County" ; Vol. II. : pp. ix/[6pp.]/pp.392/[4pp. - Index] . Full speckled calf. Smooth spines with gilt banding and original red leather title and volume numbers. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Armorial book plate to verso of the front board of Vol. II. : "W. D. Collyer, Of Cormiston." Clean text throughout. Referenced by: OCLC 21962892 / ESTC T72783 *** Family History records show that: William Daniel Collyer was born on 28 February 1824 in Libberton, Lanarkshire, his father, Daniel, was 48 and his mother, Elisabeth, was 38. He married Eliza Batman on 17 September 1846. He then married Jane Scott Mein and they had eight children together. He died in October 1897 in Axbridge, Somerset, at the age of 73, and was buried in Covington, Lanarkshire. **** "William Humphrey Marshall (1745 1818) was an 18th-century English writer on contemporary agriculture. He was an early proponent of the establishment of a state-sponsored body to promote improved farming standards and agricultural colleges. Marshall found employment as an estate manager first in Norfolk and then Staffordshire to fund his research and writing. Subsequently, he lived and worked in a number of places throughout England. In 1798 he finally completed an ambitious twelve-volume study of England's Rural Economy. He was also employed as a landscape gardener, writing three books on the subject." - See Wikipedia. N° de ref. del artículo 50399

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