The practical bee-master: : in which will be shewn how to manage bees either in straw hives or in boxes, without destroying them, and with more ease, safety, and profit, than by any method hitherto made public, viz. I. To manage bees in straw hives, with new constructed tops, at a small expence, as profitably and easily as with boxes. II. In boxes of an improved and cheap construction, easily to be managed, and with so little disturbance to the bees, that all the necessary operations may be perfomed without any danger. III. To catch and secure the queen, or to fix her and a swarm to any place you please. IV. To cause bees to quit a hive, and to be so tractable as to suffer themselves to be handled without stinging. V. Several methods of swarming  bees artificially. VI. To cause a swarm to work in separated glasses, without any hive; or in globular or other glasses, so that pure virgin honey may be taken when in its utmost perfection. VII. To prevent or cause bees to swarm. VIII. To take the honey and yet preserve the bees, with common hives only. IX. To unit casts, swarms, and stocks. X. A catalogue of, and observations on, the most proper flowers or pasturage for bees. XI. An easy and certain method of preserving stocks in winter and cold springs. XII. Several new and improved methods of extracting the wax from the combs, two of them without either straining or pressing; and each by a single operation: but more perfectly, and with far less trouble and expence of fuel than hitherto practiced. Together with such full and plain directions that the meanest cottager may attain this profitable art without difficulty, and at a small expence; intersperced with occasional strictures on Mr. Thomas Wildman's Treatise on bees: with several new discoveries and improvements, the result of long experience, and deduced from actual experiments, /
Keys, John.
Tennent, J. N.,-1967,former owner.StEdNl MRB.171
Kennedy, J.,active 1914,former owner.StEdNL MRB.173
London: : Printed for the author, and sold by him at his house in Cheshunt-Street, Hertfordshire; J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Mr. Vallance, Cheapside; and by the principal booksellers in town and country.,
[1780].
With a final errata leaf.
ESTC
Front pastedown has the bookplate of Dr. J. N. Tennent. Dr. Tennent was the Convener of the Library Committee of the Scottish  Beekeepers' Association around the middle of the 20th century.
The back pastedown has the inscription "[?] J. Kennedy 9/8/14".
Bee culture
Honeybee
Honey