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    <nonSort>The </nonSort>
    <title>gentleman farmer</title>
    <subTitle>being an attempt to improve agriculture by subjecting it to the test of rational principles</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Kames, Henry Home</namePart>
    <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Lord</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1696-1782</namePart>
    <role>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Edinburgh</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Printed for John Bell</publisher>
    <dateIssued>MDCCLXXIX [1779]</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1779</dateIssued>
    <edition>The second edition,</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <form authority="marcform">print</form>
    <extent>xxviii, 438, [2] p., 3 leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 22 cm. (8vo)</extent>
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  <note>"Epistle" signed (p. vi): Henry Home.</note>
  <note>Signatures: a-c⁴ d² A-3I⁴.</note>
  <note>Bookseller's advertisement: p. [2] at end.</note>
  <note>LC copy imperfect: p. 437-438 torn across text.</note>
  <note>LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Agriculture</topic>
    <topic>Early works to 1800</topic>
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  <subject>
    <hierarchicalGeographic>
      <country>Scotland</country>
      <city>Edinburgh</city>
    </hierarchicalGeographic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="lcc">S509 .K3 1779</classification>
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    <note>Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 710</note>
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  <relatedItem type="isReferencedBy">
    <note>ESTC T55417</note>
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