A sure method of improving estates, By plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods. &c. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantages thereof; their manner of raising, cultivating, selling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd. Offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain. By Batty Langley, of Twickenham

People / Organizations

• Francis Clay ("printed for")
• Batty Langley (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for Francis Clay, at the Bible, and Daniel Browne, at the Black-Swan, without Temple-Bar, MDCCXXVIII. [1728]

Publication year

1728

ESTC No.

T11856

Grub Street ID

170079

Description

[10],xxii[i.e.xx],274p.,plate ; 8°.

Note

Titlepage in red and black

Pp. vii-xx misnumbered ix-xxii; variant: pp. vii-xx correctly numbered

Reissued in 1740 as the 'second edition" for F. Noble, with title 'A sure and easy method of improving estates'; and again in 1741, without edition statement and as "now first published", for James Hodges, with title 'The landed gentleman's useful companion, or, A sure and easy method of improving estates'.