Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property reprinted / [edited by R. Vansittart].

Date:: 1767

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property reprinted / [edited by R. Vansittart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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ADVERTISEMENT. THE following Treatifes are reprinted, partly on account of their ufefulnefs, and partly for the fake of their antiquity. The book was become exceedingly fcarce, has been much fought after, and purchafed fometimes at a high price. The Hufiandry, and the Surveying, are attributed, and with good reafon, to that moft able judge Sir Anthony Fitzherbert. The transla¬ tion of the ΛΟΓΟΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΟΣ of Xenophon is the heft verfion of that piece in the Engliih language ; and exprefTes with fome fuccefs the fimple and unaf¬ fected itile, and the humorous and fagacious dialogue .of that elegant writer. Upon the whole, they all very well deferved to be refcued from oblivion; and if they fhall afford their readers either information or amufe- Bient, the Editor’s purpofe will be anfwered.