The Elements of Agriculture. DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (Henri-Louis).

PHILPOT WOLFE OF FORENAUGHTS'S COPY OF THE DUBLIN EDITION

The Elements of Agriculture. By M. Duhamel du Monceau. Of the Royal Academy of Sciences in France, and Fellow of the Royal Society in London, &c. &c. &c. Translated from the original French, and Revised by Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at Chelsea, and Member of the Botanick Academy at Florence.

14 folding engraved plates.

First Dublin Edition. Two volumes. 8vo. [206 x 128 x 52 mm]. xix, [i], 291 pp; vii, [i], 224 pp. Contemporary Irish bindings of speckled and polished calf, the spines divided into six panels with raised bands, lettered in the second on red goatskin labels, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Lower joint of vol.1 slightly cracked but firm, two small patches of insect activity).
Dublin: printed by G. Faulkner, in Parliament-Street, 1767.

A few minor spots but a very good copy. With the ink signature of Philpot Wolfe at the head of both titles and the armorial bookplate of Wolfe de Forenaughts. With the modern bookplate of Frank Harwood.

Philpot Wolfe (1726-1775) was the son of John Wolfe and Mary Philpot of Forenaghts, Naas, Co. Kildare. He married Mary Burgh in 1753 and served as High Sheriff in 1756, Captain of the Kildare Militia and J.P.

First published in Paris in 1762, Philip Miller's translation appeared in London in 1764 and this is the sole Dublin edition. ESTC locates ten copies, at the British Library, Cambridge, National Library of Ireland, Senate House, two at the National Trust, American Philosophical Society, Harvard, Winterthur and New York Historical Society.

It is reassuring to read from Miller's Advertisement that "the translation is well executed, the true meaning of the Author is preserved through the whole work, which is neither augmented nor abridged".

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