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The feminin' monarchi', or, the histori of bee's : shewing their admirable natur' and propertis, their generation and colonis, their government, loyalti, art, industri, enimi's, vvars, magnanimiti, &c. : together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim', and the sweet' profit arising ther'of /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butler, Charles, -1647
Corporate Author: English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Other Authors: Turner, William, -1643 (Printer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Bees > Early works to 1800.
Spelling reform > Early works to 1800.
Sound production by animals > Early works to 1800.
English language > Orthography and spelling > Early works to 1800.
Bees.
Description
Item Description:Third edition; 1st edition, 1609.
Printed according to the system of orthography proposed by the author in his English grammar, published 1633.
Errors in paging: 113-114 omitted.
Signatures: [par.]⁴ 2[par.]⁴ B-Z⁴ 2A².
"Melissomelos, or Bee's madrigall" (the song of the bees at swarming): 4 pages of table-music (pages 78-81).
LC copy has inscription: To R.W. Wynne, Esq. E.C. 1 Nov. 1832.
Physical Description:16 unnumbered pages, 182, that is, 180 pages : illustrations (woodcuts), music ; 20 cm. (quarto)
Place of Publication:England -- Oxford