The Horse Hoeing Husbandry: Or, a Treatise on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation. Wherein is taught a Method of Introducing a Sort of Vineyard Culture Into the Corn-Fields, in order to increase their Product and diminish the Common Expense

  • Engraved plate; xix, 332, [1, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
  • London: Printed for John M. Cobbett, No. 183 Fleet Street, 1822
By Tull, Jethro and William Cobbet, editor
London: Printed for John M. Cobbett, No. 183 Fleet Street, 1822. First Cobbet edition (with an introduction and some alterations). Engraved plate; xix, 332, [1, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original drab boards, with paper spine label with the price 18s 6d, uncut and unopened, some loss at head of spine. First Cobbet edition (with an introduction and some alterations). Engraved plate; xix, 332, [1, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Cobbet edition of this work, first privately issued in 1731, in which Tull recounts his invention of the seed drill, horse-hoe and four-coultered plough. Pearl 122

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