 Title page of third ed. 1777. | |
| Author | A Society of Gentlemen, a group of members of the Royal Society of Arts |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Reference encyclopaedia |
| Published | London : printed for J. F. and C. Rivington [etc.], 1777 |
| Publication place | England |
| Pages | First ed. in weekly numbers, 1768 Second ed. 1768. 670-page. Third ed. 1777, 887 pages 4th ed. 1793. 5th ed. in 2 vols, 1807.[1] |
| LC Class | 36036354 |
The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry is an 18th-century English-language encyclopaedia, holding a summary of information on agriculture and in all its branches. It was written by members of the Royal Society of Arts under the pseudonym a Society of Gentlemen, and first issued in 1756[2] and published in weekly numbers until 1768.[3]
- ^ John Claudius Loudon (1825) An Encyclopædia of Agriculture. Vol. 1. p. 393
- ^ Fussell, George Edwin. "Eighteenth Century Agricultural Dictionaries." Historical Research 7.21 (1930): 144–148.
- ^ Tobias George Smollett. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Vol. 26 W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1768. p. 367