Author: HOMER, Henry, A.M. Rector of Birdingbury in Warwickshire; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord Leigh.
Title: An enquiry into the means of preserving and improving the publick roads of this kingdom. With observations on the probable consequences of the present plan.
Description: Oxford: printed for S. Parker, in the High-Street: sold by Mess. Payne at the Mews Back Gate, and Fletcher and Co. in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London; Pearson and Aris, at Birmingham; Parker at Coventry; and Clay, at Daventry, 1767. 20cm. 87[1]pp. Modern plain paper wraps. Very light occasional browning to text. In addition to his position of local clergyman, Homer was one of the commissioners of enclosure for Warwickshire. His work on 'the inclosure of common fields' was published in 1766, and was followed a year later by this important piece on inland communication. Homer acknowledges in his dedication that his conclusions were based on his observations of the two turnpike roads 'from Dunchurch ... to Stonebridge' and 'from Finford .. to Banbury'.

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