1928 · Oxford
by Bridges, A. & R. N. Dixey
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928. Octavo, 118 pages. Illustrated with photographs, and with folding charts. First edition. A scholarly study of the beet industry, made in the 1920's, but still reflecting a 19th century agricultural tradition. The chapters on labour, manure, sowing and harvesting, reference hand tools or horse drawn apparatus. With former owner's ink inscription to front pastedown, otherwise fine in green buckram. (Inventory #: 2090)