April 12, 2024
Rare 1860 Beekeeping Book Henry Taylor Bees Apiculture Honey apiary Bee honeybee
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Rare Victorian Bee Book Very Fine Copy Original Binder's Ticket + Bookseller's Label Intact Taylor, Henry: THE BEE-KEEPER'S MANUAL, OR PRACTICAL HINTS O NTHE MANAGEMENT AND OMPLETE PRESERVATION OF THE HONEY-BEE; WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE OST APPROVED HIVES, AND OTHER APPURTENANCES OF THE APIARY. xiv,[2],224 p. Frontispiece plate. Illustrated. Alphabetical index at end. Plus 30 p. publisher's catalogue at rear. Original blindstamped green cloth binding, gilt title on spine and cover bight and nice. A very fine copy. Original binder's ticket intact: Bone & Son. Also mid-Victorian bookseller's ticket: M. Ogle & Son of Glasgow. Sixth edition. A particularly fine copy,Along with Edward Bevan and Thomas Nutt, Henry Taylor's was perhaps the best known beekeeping manual in England during the 19th-century. Illustrated with over one hundred excellent wood engravings depicting hives, beekeeping tools, and the like. Includes a discussion of bar hives. The charming frontispiece scene shows a Victorian couple walking by an elaborate bee house. Page 97 even shows a hive set-up in the window of a brick building: "A spare room in a dwelling or an outhouse may often be fitted up to serve the purpose of an apiary...""A great deal of space is devoted to descriptions of various kinds of hives which were known to the author; he begins with the ordinary
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