[FOOD REPORTS] Report from the Committee to whom the petition of several yeomen, farmers, and grasiers in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey and Kent ... concerned in the growth of corn, and the breeding and fatting of cattle, was referred, [n. p.]: printed in the year 1745, 4°, modern wrappers. [Goldsmith's 8140; not in Kress] -- Report of the Committee of the Board of Agriculture ... concerning the culture and use of Potatoes, London: by W. Bulmer & Co. for George Nicol, and sold by Mess. Robinson, J. Sewell [and others], 1795, 4°, 7 engraved plates, 2 folding, half title (light spotting to half title and title), modern red buckram, uncut and partly unopened [not in Golsmith's or Kress] -- [CUNNINGHAM, Peter (poet and curate at Eyam, d. 1805)] Account of the Experiments tried by the Board of Agriculture in the composition of various sorts of Bread, London: printed for G. Nicol and sold by Messrs. Robinson, J. Sewell [and others], 1795, 4°, PRESENTATION COPY, rear free endpaper inscribed: "To the Right Reverend Bishop of Llandaff. A tribute of the greatest Respect from the author P. Cunninghame, Eyam Derbyshire," folding plate of "Mr. Walker's predatory mill" (but lacking a second plate and half title, title a little spotted and soiled), recent green buckram [Goldsmith's 16229; Kress B.2960] -- George PEARSON (1751-1828). Experiments and Observations on the constituent parts of the Potatoe-Root, [London: 1795], 4°, modern wrappers. [not in Goldsmith's or Kress] (4)

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[FOOD REPORTS] Report from the Committee to whom the petition of several yeomen, farmers, and grasiers in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey and Kent ... concerned in the growth of corn, and the breeding and fatting of cattle, was referred, [n. p.]: printed in the year 1745, 4°, modern wrappers. [Goldsmith's 8140; not in Kress] -- Report of the Committee of the Board of Agriculture ... concerning the culture and use of Potatoes, London: by W. Bulmer & Co. for George Nicol, and sold by Mess. Robinson, J. Sewell [and others], 1795, 4°, 7 engraved plates, 2 folding, half title (light spotting to half title and title), modern red buckram, uncut and partly unopened [not in Golsmith's or Kress] -- [CUNNINGHAM, Peter (poet and curate at Eyam, d. 1805)] Account of the Experiments tried by the Board of Agriculture in the composition of various sorts of Bread, London: printed for G. Nicol and sold by Messrs. Robinson, J. Sewell [and others], 1795, 4°, PRESENTATION COPY, rear free endpaper inscribed: "To the Right Reverend Bishop of Llandaff. A tribute of the greatest Respect from the author P. Cunninghame, Eyam Derbyshire," folding plate of "Mr. Walker's predatory mill" (but lacking a second plate and half title, title a little spotted and soiled), recent green buckram [Goldsmith's 16229; Kress B.2960] -- George PEARSON (1751-1828). Experiments and Observations on the constituent parts of the Potatoe-Root, [London: 1795], 4°, modern wrappers. [not in Goldsmith's or Kress] (4)

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Both the Report [on] the petition of several yeomen, farmers and grasiers of Middlesex, Surrey and Kent, and George Pearson's Experiments on the Potatoe-Root are rare tracts, ESTCm locating only one copy of each (BL) though the former is also in the Goldsmith's Library. The Account of the Experiments tried by the Board of Agriculture ... gives a number of recipes for making bread, and the presentation inscription on this copy is of interest, both as evidence of its true authorship (not provided by ESTC, Goldsmith or Kress), and of the fact that Cunninghame was still living at Eyam in 1795 -- a point concerning which DNB is unsure.

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