Essays and observations on the following subjects : viz. on trade, husbandry of flax, raising banks against tides and flood, hops, firections for making roads, instructions for making syder, observations on the linen manufactury, on dressing flax, on brewing / published by a society of gentlemen in Dublin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corbett, Charles, 1710-1752, bookseller.

Royal Dublin Society.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Periodicals.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Ireland.

Ireland.

Genre:

Periodicals.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (copy 2)

Cushing, John (autograph) (inscription) (copy 2)

Sayward, Jo (stamp) (copy 2)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 222 pages, 4 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Essays by the Dublin Society

Dublin Society's Weekly observations.

Fingerprint:

X.r. s.u- k,ry CoMi (3) 1740 (R)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Dublin printed, London reprinted, and sold by Charles Corbett ..., MDCCXL [1740]

Notes:

Originally published as the Dublin Society's Weekly observations, v. 1, no. 1-52 (Jan. 4, 1737-Apr. 4, 1738), which was suspended July-Sept. 1737. Cf. Hanson 5237.

Signatures: A² B-O⁸ P⁸(-P8).

Direction line reads: Vol. I.

Title vignette.

Errata on leaf P7v.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy 2 has autograph of John Cushing on front free endpaper; ms. inscription ("John Cushing[?]") on front pastedown; effaced ms. inscription at head of title leaf; stamp ("JoSAYWARDS") at head of leaf B1r.

Cited in:

ESTC T120467

OCLC:

79151941