Rural improvements: or, essays on the most rational methods of improving estates; accomodated to the soil, climate, and circumstances of England: In which it is clearly demonstrated, that the Landed Estates of this Kingdom may with certainty, and at a very moderate Expence, be increased to double their present Value. The Method of doing which is clearly pointed out, and evinced from undeniable Principles, deduced from a Series of real Practice and Experience. Essay First; Shewing the Improvements that respect the Occupier. Essay Second; The Improvements that respect the Land-Owner. The whole interspersed with a Variety of interesting Reflections and Observations, on the Poor, Poor-Laws, high Prices of Provisions, Labour, decay of Foreign Trade, Population, Corn-Trade, Bounty on Exportation; with rational and proper Measures respecting the same. Also, Remarks On Messrs. Harte, Tull, Miller, Chateauvieux, Compleat English Farmer, Young, Peters, Weston, &c. By a land owner.
- Wimpey, Joseph, 1739-1808.
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- M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]
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London : printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]
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xvi,528,xv,[1]p. ; 80.
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ESTC T133887
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