Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews 1793. v 1 blank 7-56 pp. Stitched untrimmed and Very Good.<br /> <br /> This document prints the Society's Articles of Incorporation signed in type by John Hancock. Samuel Adams and other luminaries comprised the original incorporators. The Rules and Regulations and list of officers are also printed along with other founding documents including the list of original members-- John Adams a Brattle Bulfinch Brooks Cabot and a long cast of eminent persons. <br /> The document also includes papers on early agricultural research. According to Evans and Sabin this is the first printing of all the constituent documents of the Society. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Evans 25794. Sabin 45896. Rink 1011. Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews unknown
Boston: Printed by Young & Minns Printers to the State and to the Agricultural Society 1798. 25 3 blanks pp. Disbound light scattered foxing. Good.<br /> <br /> Everything anyone conceivably would want to know. Publication is motivated by "the importance of increasing the quantity of vegetable food for the comfort and happiness of mankind as well as for the support of domestick animals. . ." <br /> Evans 34084. Not in Rink. Printed by Young & Minns, Printers to the State and to the Agricultural Society unknown
Boston: Young and Minns 1801. Hard Cover. Fair . One volume containing seven publications of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society those for 1801 1803 1804 two different publications--the second actually 1805 1807 1809 and 1810. 93 3 p.; 93 3 p.; 61 3 p.; 111 p.; 85 1 p.; 91 1 p.; 112 p.: 1 leaf of illustration tables; 22 cm. Full Contemporary calf; red morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title: Memoirs Massachusetts Agricultural Society. Page edges speckled blue. Publication for 1807 printed by Adams and Rhoades; those for 1809 and 1810 printed by Russell and Cutler. Publication for 1809 is titled "Georgick Papers for 1809 consisting of Letters and Extracts Communicated to the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture." Includes a list of the members of the society in 1801 and 1803. Front fixed endpaper bears bookplate of the Franklin Lyceum Library covered by bookplate of the South Reading Town Library. The South Reading Town Library of Wakefield Mass. originally South Reading Mass. was established in 1856. At that time the pre-existing Franklin Lyceum Library gave its books to the new public library. Shaw & Shoemaker 911 4617 6751 6752 1804 changed to 1805 by hand on title page of Early Am. Imprints copy and 20697. The 1807 and 1809 publications are not in Shaw & Shoemaker. In Fair Condition: front board detached but present; front free endpaper and two following blank leaves also detached but present; spine cracked with loss of leather at head and tail; back joint separated; foxing and occasional soiling in the margins; otherwise pages are clean and tight. Young and Minns unknown