Author: WRIGHT (Thomas, of Ould, Northamptonshire)
Title: The Formation and Management of Floated Meadows; with Corrections of Errors, found in the Treatises of Messrs. Davis, Marshall, Boswell, Young, and Smith. On the Subject of Floating. To which is added a Dissertation on the Size of Farms. Northampton: Printed by Peter Mackenzie, County Press Office, 1808. First edition, 207, [1]pp., 3 folding engraved plates (plate 2 loose). [Bound with:] Large Farms, Recommended in a National View. A Reply to Mr. Wright's Address to the Public on the Monopoly of Small Farms.
Description: London: Printed for James Scatcherd, 1796. First edition, [4], 27, [1]pp., with half-title. 2 Works bound in one, 8vo (222 x 140 mm), later cloth-backed boards, paper MS label to spine, uncut. The second title, published anonymously, was almost certainly written by the Thomas Wright of Ould, in response to a work by a different Thomas Wright of London, condemning the buying up of small farms by monopolists, published in 1795 entitled A short address to the public on the monopoly of small farms, a great cause of the present scarcity... with the plan of an institution to remedy the evil. Perkins, 1955 & p.291; Rothamsted, p.161.

Keywords: AGRICULTURE FARMS NORTHAMPTON NORTHAMPTONSHIRE