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The Management of Bees. BAGSTER (Samuel, junior).

£600.00

The Management of Bees. With a Description of the "Ladies' Safety Hive". With forty illustrative Wood Engravings.

Hand-coloured engraved frontispeice, title printed in black and red with a woodcut vignette and woodcuts in the text.

First Edition. 8vo. [171 x 106 x 20 mm]. xx, 244 pp. Bound in the original flower and leaf embossed green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt on a red leather label, plain endleaves, untrimmed edges. (Label slightly chipped).

London: [printed by S. Bagster jun. for] Samuel Bagster, Paternoster Row, or Vere Street, Cavendish Square. And William Pickering, Chancery Lane, 1834

A fine copy from the collection of John Porter, who bought it from Francis Edwards in 1976 (with invoice for £48).

Stock no. ebc8220

The Management of Bees. With a Description of the "Ladies' Safety Hive". With forty illustrative Wood Engravings.

Hand-coloured engraved frontispeice, title printed in black and red with a woodcut vignette and woodcuts in the text.

First Edition. 8vo. [171 x 106 x 20 mm]. xx, 244 pp. Bound in the original flower and leaf embossed green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt on a red leather label, plain endleaves, untrimmed edges. (Label slightly chipped).

London: [printed by S. Bagster jun. for] Samuel Bagster, Paternoster Row, or Vere Street, Cavendish Square. And William Pickering, Chancery Lane, 1834

A fine copy from the collection of John Porter, who bought it from Francis Edwards in 1976 (with invoice for £48).

Stock no. ebc8220