The Rural Economy of the West of England: Volume 1 - Including Devonshire, and Parts of Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Cornwall

Between 1787 and 1798, the agricultural writer and land agent William Marshall (1745-1818) published a number of works on the rural economies of England. In this two-volume work, first published in 1796, he describes the farming, geography, public works and produce of districts in Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Cornwall.