The farmer's magazine, and useful family companion : ... By Agricola Sylvan, gentleman.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Standardized Title:

Farmer's magazine, and useful family companion (London, England : Monthly).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Agricultural implements--England--Periodicals.

Agricultural implements.

Agricultural prices--England--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Agricultural prices.

Farm income--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Farm income.

Farm management--England--Periodicals.

Farm management.

Animal husbandry--England--Periodicals.

Animal husbandry.

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v., plates (some fold.) ) ill., tables ;

Monthly

[Number I. (April 1776)]-December, 1780.

Other Title:

Farmer's magazine, and useful family companion

Place of Publication:

[London, England] : Printed for R. Snagg, no. 129, Fleet-Street, London; and R. Cruttwell, in Bath; and sold by every bookseller, stationer, and news-carrier, in the kingdom, [1776-1779]

Notes:

'Agricola Sylvan' is a pseudonym.

With title pages and caption titles.

Title and imprint from Number II. (May 1776.); first issue lacks title page.

Imprint lacks date; years of publication from dates of issues.

Imprints vary; from no. 3 (June 1776) R. Snagg is replaced by: W. Goldsmith, no. 24, in Pater-noster-Row.

"Price 6 d." follows designation.

Title pages include table of contents.

Frontis. = plate, with additional plates and drawings showing new farm machinery and grain crops.

Tables show weather, crop yields, prices, farm expenses.

Articles on farming and rural life, including information on world wide agricultural practices, country by country, with specific advice on crops, new machinery, and costs and profits. Includes poetry selections, reivews of new books, occasional correspondence.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Issues from [Feb. 1777] to Dec. 1780 lack numerical designation.

First issue and issues from [Feb. 1777] to [Feb. 1778] lack chronological designation.

Issues include volume numbers on direction line.

Collected annually, with added prefatory material, as: The farmer's magazine, and useful family companion.

Finding Aid/Index:

No. X. (Jan. 1777), includes subject index for vol. I, as does last issue of each subsequent volume.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1305

Crane & Kaye, 234

Times handlist, p. 44

English Short Title Catalog, P6022.

OCLC:

508356864