The Practical Management of Poultry with a View to Profit: A guide to Successful Poultry Keeping on a Large or Small Scale

A very scarce first edition of this practical handbook on profitable poultry keeping, profusely illustrated throughout. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding.First edition.A very scarce copy of this work.Profusely illustrated with a frontispiece and ten plates, alongside numerous in-text illustrations and diagrams.A detailed poultry manual offering practical guidance for commercial and domestic poultry keepers, covering housing, feeding, incubation, disease prevention, and the economics of small-scale production. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Damp staining to lower perimeter of front board. One or two handling marks to boards. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Rear hinge cracked, with binding material exposed, slightly loosened but holding. The odd minor handling mark to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if typically age toned, with one or two handling marks to fore edge. Good.