General View Of The Agriculture Of Wiltshire. Drawn Up For The Consideration Of The Board Of Agriculture And Internal Improvement. By Thomas Davis [Later Edition – Full Leather Binding] Thomas Davies

London: Printed Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Second Edition, 1813. Bound in full leather with a new spine to older diced calf boards, a hand-coloured folding engraved map, frontispiece of the Author and an engraved plate of a Wiltshire ram. Thomas Davis was born at Penton, nr. Weyhill, in Hampshire. In 1763 he began to work for the Steward to Viscount Weymouth (later first Marquis of Bath) at Longleat and succeeded this Steward in 1777. In 1796 Davis moved to Horningsham Manor House and continued to be the Steward of the Longleat Estate until his death. He published many papers on agriculture and was also a keen historian and botanist. Pagination: xix, [i], 268pp. Provenance: bookplate for Richard Strachey. Approximately 9 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine – good condition – gilt titles to brown leather label, gilt bands gilt year of publication to the foot of the spine. Joints – good condition – sound, repaired. Corners – good condition – bumped and worn. Boards – good condition – diced leather boards, marked and worn. Page edges – good condition – top edge slightly darkened, all tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges – good condition – sound, repaired. Paste downs – good condition – dark brown, bookplate to the front. End papers – good condition – dark brown. Title – good condition – slightly tanned. Pages – good condition – frontispiece portrait, fold out map, lightly tanned with some foxing to the edges. Binding – good condition – good clean copy. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1813 Binding: Hardback