Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, & 1789; Undertaken More Particularly With A View Of Ascertaining The Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, And National Prosperity Of The Kingdom Of France.

London: Printed For W.Richardson, & Bury St. Edmund's: Printed By J.Rackham, For W.Richardson, London, 1794. Second Edition. The most valuable account of the condition of France on the eve of the Revolution, written by the pre-eminent English writer on agriculture. Young, first secretary to the Board of Agriculture, was a prolific author and a great reformer of English agricultural practice. He pioneered the collection and use of statistical data in his writing, and had previously published four highly regarded accounts of his extensive tours through Southern England and Wales, Eastern England, Northern England, and Ireland. This second edition has been substantially revised and enlarged with a whole second volume added. Half of the first volume is devoted to a travelogue relating to Germany, Italy, and Spain, as well as France. This is followed by a detailed discussion of France, with chapters on soil, climate, produce, rent and price, courses of crops, irrigation, lucerne, sainfoin, inclosures, tenantry and size of farms, sheep, price of provisions, price of labour, support of the poor, rise of prices, produce, population, the police of corn, commerce, manufactures, taxation, Revolution, vines, silk, cattle, plants, waste lands, woods, tillage, manures and manuring. There are also sections on cultivation in Lombardy and Spain. Einaudi 6100. Goldsmiths' 15937. Kress B.2872. McCulloch 214. McDonald p. 213. 2 Volumes. 4to. pp. viii, 629, [3]index; 2 p.l., 336, [4]index. with half-title in Vol. II. 3 folding engraved maps (1 hand-coloured). A very good clean copy bound in plain modern buckram