[ESTATE MANAGEMENT] THE DUTY OF A STEWARD TO HIS LORD REPRESENTED UNDER SEVERAL PLAIN AND DISTINCT ARTICLES ... TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX SHEWING THE WAY TO PLENTY PROPOSED TO THE FARMERS ..

London: John Shuckburgh, 1727. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto; full calf in a Cambridge style binding; it has been rebacked and retains an early spine label; xc, 212 pages; with double-page folding plate “A Survey of Dun Boggs Farm in Haversham” as well as a double page plate of hedges.~~On the front pastedown is a sheet “Reports of Logs scaled for Keewatin Lumbering and Manufacturing -- blank form from the1880’s; on the front free endpaper is a 19th century newspaper clipping on Replanting Forest Ground. ~~This 18th century book exploresaspects of husbandry and the management of sizable estates -- from the management of accounts, and the value of manure, to the importance of making sure the mole-hunders do their jobs. Very Good binding.