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The Practical Poultry Keeper: A Complete and Standard Guide to the Management of Poultry, Whether For Domestic Use, the Markets, or Exhibition

An extensive guide to the keeping of poultry, an interesting agricultural work illustrated with vivid chromolithograph plates. A complete and standard guide to the keeping of poultry, for domestic use, market use, and for exhibition.Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece, seven chromolithograph plates, and in-text engravings.Collated, complete.By L. Wright.The twelfth edition. Undated, dated from publisher's imprint; they were known as 'Cassell, Petter, & Galpin' between 1858 to 1878.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light marks, and a slightly larger mark to the head of the front board. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A little cockling to the cloth to the front board. Light rubbing to the spine. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright with the occasional spots. Plate facing page 161 is detaching. Good