Handbook for Farmers and Gardeners in Australia. With Complete Calendars for Farm, Garden, Orchard, &c., for each Month
Adelaide, H. Hampson, Advertising Agent, 1894.
Octavo, [iv] (advertisements), viii, 126 (last blank), xciii (appendix), [5] (advertisements) pages plus a frontispiece portrait of Albert Molineux and 10 plates (6 double-page, including a map with additional colour).
Light purple cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; cloth a little rubbed, marked and bumped, with light wear to the extremities and a split to the cloth on the top third of the rear joint; later bookplate and bookseller's inkstamp on the front pastedown; a very good copy (internally excellent).
'This work has been in course of preparation during several years, and is a selection of articles, chiefly, which have appeared from time to time in the columns of the "Garden and Field".... The author hopes that this work, which he regrets is very incomplete, will be of some use to the rural population of Australia generally, and of South Australia in particular' (preface). The lengthy appendix comprises 'Cultural Hints for Cottagers' (46 pages) and 'Farm Calendar' (47 pages). Ferguson 12694; Crittenden 80.
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