Agriculture.- John Dovaston's copy.- [Worlidge (John)] A Compleat system of husbandry and gardening; or, the gentleman’s companion, in the business and pleasures of a country life, 3 parts in 1, folding engraved plate depicting a seed drill, waterwheel and well, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, occasional marginal water-staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary panelled calf, spine in compartments and with burgundy morocco label, upper cover detached, lower joint starting, but holding firm, foot of spine little worn, a few scuffs to spine, rubbed, [Fussell I, pp.68-72; Hunt 435; Perkins 1946; Goldsmiths’ 5292; cf. Simon BG 1633], Printed J. Pickard, 1716; and a defective copy of his rare The Second Parts of Systema Agriculturæ, 1689 (plates in facsimile), 8vo (2)*** Fifth edition of the Systema agriculturæ, 'revised and corrected, in many places Enlarged, and many New and Necessary experiments added'; here with an attractive provenance. Provenance: John Dovaston (1740-1808), Shropshire nurseryman and antiquarian (ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper and title dated 1762, the latter with price paid noted). The Dovaston library was continued by his son John Freeman Milward Dovaston (1782-1854), poet, ornithologist and friend of Bewick (engraved armorial 'The Nursery Library' bookplate). The library was dispersed in 1910 in Shrewsbury by Hall, Wateridge & Owen.