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c1870 Beeton's Book of Home Pets : Showing How To Rear and Manage, in Sickness and in Health
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding
A later combined edition published by Ward, Lock and Tyler. Originally published in separate volumes, and then as a combined edition by Beeton.
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, monochrome woodcut vignettes and ten chromolithographic plates, from designs and watercolour sketches by Harrison Weir, printed by C. Leighton and W. Dickes.
A scarce and beautifully illustrated study by Samuel Beeton on home pets, covering how to care for and rear a variety of animals such as birds, dogs, rabbits, donkeys and more.
Bound in quarter morocco, with the original crushed morocco spine laid down, and cloth to the boards.
Condition
Bound in quarter morocco, with the original crushed morocco spine laid down, and cloth to the boards. Externally smart with light edge wear, slight cockling to the cloth to the boards, and light damp staining to the extremities. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with the odd spot, heavier to the front few pages.
Very Good
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