Profitable poultry keeping / edited with additions by Mason C. Weld

Beale, Stephen. Profitable poultry keeping / edited with additions by Mason C. Weld. Illustrated. New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1884. Hardback, FAIR. Illustrated green cloth, bumped to corners, with shelfwear to edges, light damage to head and foot of the spine, and some small marks. Binding intact but split in multiple places, the string course still strong and holding the gatherings together. Frontispiece b/w illustration. Light tanning to title page. 258pp., b/w illustrations. Stephen Beale is the pseudonym of Sir Edward Brown, first president of the World Poultry Science Association and an enthusiastic expert who roused poultry breeders to win recognition for themselves in the nation's life. A prolific writer, he edited many poultry publications and was knighted in 1931 in recognition of his work for industry. He died in 1939. The illustrator Thomas William Wood (1833 – 14 February 1882 was an English zoological illustrator responsible for the accurate drawings in major nineteenth-century works of natural history including Darwin's The Descent of Man and Wallace's The Malay Archipelago. He illustrated many books, often of birds but also of moths and mammals. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. We do not use AI and all images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…