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pp [6] 54. Collation: *4, B-G4, H2. Octavo (7 ¾" x 5"). In modern buckram with gilt lettering to spine and gilt stamp of the Rothamsted Laboratory, Lawes Agricultural Trust. Condition: A few pages with tiny loss at edges, possible from time of manufacture. *** With introduction by Jonathan Swift. Attributed to Alexander MacAulay and Arthur Dobbs. *** Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) is famous as the author of Gulliver's travels, and other political satires. Arthur Dobbs (1689 - 1765) was a Scottish-born British colonial official, who was a neighbor and family friend of Jonathan Swift while living in Ireland, and who wrote the first description of the Venus flytrap while governor of North Carolina. Alexander MacAulay (??? - 1766?) was backed in an unsuccessful run for parliament by Swift, and wrote a number of these treatises on Ireland and its society. *** Rothamsted is one of the world's oldest agricultural research institutions, founded in 1843 by John Bennet Lawes, on his estate at Rothamsted Manor. *** Fussell p.16; Teerink 769.
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