The Farmer's Manual of Agricultural Chemistry, with Instruction Respecting the Disease of Cereals, and the Destruction of the Insects Which Are Injurious to Those Plants

London: George Knight and Sons. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. In the Original Blind Stamped Russian Green cloth with bright gilt titling to the spine and front cover. There is some fading to the base colour of the spine, but all titling, etc, is clear and bright. There are also some patches of light 'spotting' to the covers, but the covers are tight and complete and all hinges sound. A Very Nice copy. There are the remains of a removed bookplate and an erased signature on the front pastedown /endpaper, tho' oddly the words "Near Fort Beaufort" remain in old ink between the two. Plain lemon Endpapers and a small Binders' sticker to bottom of the rear e /p - Bound by Edmonds & Remnants, London. Internally VG no other major marks. (viii) + 218 pp + (2pp Publisher's/Author's Book Advert ) , + 8pp Author's Advert for 'Chemistry Applied to Agriculture' - a list of Apparatus, Instruments, Equipment and Tests for sale to aid the Farmer. Illustrated with b/w wood engravings/illustrations; charts, diagrams, etc. Contents include : - Soils; Manures; Guano; The Diseases of Cereals; Smut; Canker; Mildew; Insects injurious to Cereals; The Common/Field Cockchafer; The Corn Weevil; Alucite; The Common Dart Moth; The Wheat Fly; Locusts, etc, etc. This is a FIRST Edition, First Impression, and after the Author's Preface there is a Publishers Note stating "The Whole of the following pages were in type as far back as 1851 (which was to have bewen a 'tie-in' with 'The Great Exhibition' of 1851 where Messrs Knight and Sons, the Publishers, had for sale at the Exhibition Chemical 'Cabinets' - personal 'laboratories' - for the Private Gentleman, The Medical Man, The Agriculturalist or Farmer - advertised at the end of the book. ) but....the publishers were unable to issue this to the Public until now". Overall, apart from the minor faults to the covers as noted above, this is a Very Clean, Tight and Bright copy. Early Agricultural Science. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .