De l'agriculture des anciens. Traduit de l'anglois (par P.A. Paris).

A Paris, Chez H.J. Jansen, an X (1802). With 2 frontispieces and 1 engraved plate. 2 volumes. (2), xiv, 470, (2) pp.; (2), iv, 478, (2) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering. Kress B.4507; Musset-Pathay 23; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi. First French edition. The Rev. Adam Dickson is best known for his Husbandry of the Ancients of which this is the first French translation, derived from the Scriptores rei rusticae and other writers, and compared with the modern system. Palgrave mentions that his practical knowledge enabled him to clear up many difficulties but 'his scholarship was imperfect.''A good classical scholar, and an excellent practical farmer' (McDonald, Agricultural Writers, p. 211.) Fussell, in his More Old English Farming Books, writes that none of Dickson's publications was so important as the present work.