A complete system of improved live stock and cattle management : or, The practical guide to gentlemen, store-masters, farmers, and other keepers of stock, in perfecting the breeds and varieties of the several kinds of live stock, in explaining and inculcating the nature, principles, and best methods of breeding, weaning, rearing, feeding, and fattening them; the management of their different products, and the most scientific means of curing the various diseases and accidents to which they are exposed; with correct descriptions of the numerous breeds and varieties of each sort, their characters, properties, uses and benefits, short introductory accounts of their natural history, and proper directions for treating and managing each particular kind: the whole containing whatever is new, interesting, and useful, on this great and important subject. Together with the latest practical facts, discoveries, and inquiries, which have been made by the most experienced and eminent breeders, amateurs, farmers, and others, in the improving and increasing the value, utility, and profit of every sort of domestic live stock. Also, a full display of the veterinary art and practice; the several useful breeds of dogs and rabbits; the nature, habits, and proper management of all kinds of poultry and pigeons; the necessary culture of bees and fish; with much other useful and important information on rural practice and economy. Illustrated by a series of fine engravings of the most improved animals of the different sorts, after drawings made from nature expressly for this work /
Niall Kenny description: Scarce in any form, especially with coloured plates; this is possibly a later re-issue of “A complete system of improved live stock and cattle management”. Both forms of the book seem identical except the plates are all dated (1822-24) in “A complete..”, whereas they are not...
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| Summary: | Niall Kenny description: Scarce in any form, especially with coloured plates; this is possibly a later re-issue of “A complete system of improved live stock and cattle management”. Both forms of the book seem identical except the plates are all dated (1822-24) in “A complete..”, whereas they are not in this printing. It is therefore possible that this book was published later. It is also confusing regarding the plates, in that D 220 has only 34 plates listed, as do the BL, Yale and RCVS copies; it is well known that the plate of the cow skeleton and viscera in volume 1 is combined onto one plate, but in this copy of volume 2 the plate on page 116 of breeds of horses is in fact 9 separate plates, and suspect this accounts for the discrepancy in plate numbers; interestingly all plates EXCEPT these 9 have the name of Thomas Kelly on; need to check this; this book was originally published in parts. |
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| Item Description: | "London: printed by William Clowes, Northumberland-court": title page verso. Plates dated variously 1822-1824. Published in parts. With an additional title page, engraved: 'Improved live stock and cattle management'. With an index in volume 2. |
| Physical Description: | 2 volumes (iv, 504 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates; 510 pages, 28 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, portrait ; 27 cm. |
| Place of Publication: | England -- London. |