British Bee-Keepers Guide Book: To the Management of Bees in Movable-Comb Hives, and the use of the Extractor

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Houlston & Sons, London.

BINDING
Blue cloth boards with gilt and black lettering and decoration and embossed design.

BOOK CONDITION
Boards are worn at edges, spine faded. Binding weak with some splits and some pages partially loose. Browning to endpapers but printed pages  remain largely clear and unmarked. Previous owners dedication in ink on flyleaf dated Xmas 1907.

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
Sixteenth edition, "fortieth thousand," 1900. (First published 1881)

DESCRIPTION
Two photographic plates. Many drawings and diagrams plus 17 tone block illustrations  within the text. Several pages of period advertisements at end of book. Small volume, 16mo. 180 pp.

SYNOPSIS
Attractively bound practical guide to bee-keeping which was clearly very popular on publication and sold in large numbers, this being the 16th revised edition.