The Farmer's Magazine and Useful Family Companion: Consisting of Practical Essays, Dissertations, and Remarks on the Different Branches of Husbandry. Volume II

Agricola Sylvan

London, England : Printed for W. Goldsmith, 1777

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Octavo. Contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards. 435 pp., [4]; 11 plates (some folding). Moderate wear and chipping. Front board detached, rear joint split. Tears to plates, two plates trimmed close affecting engraving. Lacking frontispiece, folding plate of wagon is lacking one sheet. Foxing and scattered staining. Armorial bookplate of William Henry Jacobs, his ink signature to verso of one plate. 

"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, reviews of new books, occasional correspondence" and "Tables show weather, crop yields, prices, farm expenses". Fussell, More Old English Farming Books, from Tull to the Board of Agriculture 1731 to 1793, notes that Donald McDonald claimed that "Agricola Sylvan" was a pseudonym used by Henry Home, Lord Kames, but then adds "on what grounds I do not know"