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LANGLEY, Batty (1696-1751). A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by Plantations of Oak, Elm, Ash..., London: F. Clay & D. Browne, 1728. 8°. Title in red and black, folding engraved frontispiece, 2 advertisement leaves at end (frontispiece and advertisement leaves lightly browned). A GOOD UNPRESSED COPY in contemporary sprinkled calf (rebacked, covers rubbed). Provenance: Crown Estate Office, Office of Woods Library (library stamps on endpapers).
FIRST EDITION of a 'treatise [which] contains much practical and informative material, and provides some interesting accounts showing the expenses connected with the making of plantations, including the cost of labourer's [sic] wages, together with details recording the profit to be obtained', Henrey III, 929.
FIRST EDITION of a 'treatise [which] contains much practical and informative material, and provides some interesting accounts showing the expenses connected with the making of plantations, including the cost of labourer's [sic] wages, together with details recording the profit to be obtained', Henrey III, 929.
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