Butler, Rev. Charles. (& Owen, John (Ed.)). The Feminine Monarchie or The History of Bees. Showing their admirable nature and properties, their generation and colonies, their government, loyalty, art, industry, enemies, wars, magnanimitie, together with the right ordering of them from time to time: And the sweet profit arising thereof. Facs. Ed. Pub. Northern Bee Books. 2017
pp.iv, 140 with b/w. photo. and illus. 8vo. A new softback.
This is the first new edition of ‘The Feminine Monarchie’ to be published for over 300 years. It contains a new introduction, as well as annotations and a glossary of the more obscure words used by Butler. The spelling and grammar have been modernised throughout. This edition has been prepared from the 1623 edition, which includes Butler’s famous ‘Bees Madrigal’.
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