Bagster, Samuel. The Management of Bees. With a description of the “Ladies’ Safety Hive”. 2nd. Ed. Pub. Saunders and Otley, London. 1838
pp.xvi, 240 with fine hand-coloured frontis., illustrated title page, 40 wood engravings in text and 4-pages of publisher’s adverts. 8vo. Hardback. Leonard Harrison Matthews (1901-86) copy with his signature, the leading academic, zoologist and prolific author who wrote British Mammals and Mammals in the British Isles in Collins’ New Naturalist series. Contemporary signature (dated 1841) to title page. Minor spotting, o/w. contents fine. Original yellow end-papers. In original green cloth boards, with gilt illus., a little darkened on spine o/w. thor. vg. (Harding 222).
The frontispiece depicts ‘splendid [hand] coloured drawings of queen, worker and drone, ‘magnified’ and also life size’ (Harding).
£275.00 [Ref: 61919]