Cumbria. The Workington Agricultural Society, three parts in...

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Cumbria. The Workington Agricultural Society, three parts in one, The President's Report; and the Rules of the Workington Agricultural Society, for the Year[s] 1806, 07, & 08, Workington: Printed by Edmund Bowness, 1807-1808, engraved armorial title-page vignettes, pp: 42; [ii], 90; 126; the text of the first part includes the list of subscribers as called for, and  the second and third parts also include the reports of the agricultural society in the Isle of Man as called for, within the register, bound as one in contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt-lettered, over marbled papered boards, 8vo, two parts in one, comprising another annual report, 1813-14, Workington: J. Foster, 1815, [&] [bound with] [Curwen (John Christian)], Cursory Observations on the Corn Laws; Submitted to the Consideration of The Members of the Workington Agricultural Society. By the President, Workington: Robert Mordy, 1814, pp: 134; [ii], 16, original printed paper wrappers as issued, some chips, creases, and splits, 8vo, another annual report, 1809, contemporary teal paper wrappers, 8vo, (3).

N.B. The first volume's first report for 1806, printed in 1807, is not held by the British Library. 

Provenance: 1st: *.* Curwen, Chapel Bank, 1808, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription to ffep; almost certainly Chapel Bank Colliery, Workington, Cumbria, and a relation of the society's president John Christian Curwen (1756-1828), of Workington Hall, Whig MP, High Sheriff, and provincial agriculturist.