Poultry
Subtitle: their varieties, management, breeding, and diseases : comprising clear and copious directions for the construction and fitting-up of poultry-houses upon large and small scales; choice of stock; obtaining eggs cheaply all the year round; the rearing, fattening, and general management of fowls, turkeys, guinea-fowls, ducks, and geese; and the treatment of their diseases
By: by Hugh Piper ... ; with a beautifully-coloured plate.
Contributors: Lydon, A. F.; Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893.; Simmons & Botten
Publisher: Groombridge and Sons
Published: 1871
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Poultry -- Breeding and raising
Other titles: Poultry and their management; Piper on poultry
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Preliminary colour wood-engraved plate is with signature: "A. F. Lydon" [i.e. Alexander Francis Lydon].  Plate is with title captions.

Plates were printed and engraved by Benjamin Fawcett.  Cf. McLean, Ruari and Antonia.  Benjamin Fawcett: engraver and colour printer, 1988.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-16] at end.

McLean, Ruari and Antonia.  Benjamin Fawcett, p. 158.

MASS copy: Bound in limp blue sand-grain cloth, blocked in blind with the spine blocked in gold; a.e. stained red.  With pastel yellow painted endpapers.  With bookseller's label: "Bookseller & Stationer  J. Gilbert,  18, Gracechurch Street.  London E. C.  Engraver & Printer.".  With ownership inscription dated 1872: "Florence A. [Wulff?].