[Angaston]. LANCE, Edward J.

On the Food of Plants ... to which is added, an Essay on the Drill Husbandry of Turnips ... [Bound together with] The Hop Farmer; or, A Complete Account of Hop Culture ...

London, Messrs. (James) Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1842 and 1838.

Octavo, [iv], 66 (last blank), [2] (publisher's advertisement, last blank); and xii, 166, 12 (Lance & Co. advertisements) pages with 3 diagrams and several tables plus an extensively hand-coloured folding 'Geological Map of the South East Part of England' (158 × 203 mm).

Original flush-cut plain card covers (recently rebacked in cloth) with the original paper title-label (with a cumulative title) mounted on the front cover; original covers a little marked and stained; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy.

A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper 'Presented by the Author | with his best wishes'. The following has been added in ink in an early hand: 'to | Mr. Sam'l Bartlett | and from him to the Rev'd G. Stonehouse | Secretary of the Angastine [sic] | College South Australia'. The early pencil signature of Emily Stonehouse has been appended.

George Stonehouse (1808-1871) 'was a Baptist minister in South Australia, founder of the LeFevre Terrace Baptist Church, North Adelaide, and first president of Adelaide Theological College' (Wikipedia). He was born in Kent, the son and grandson of Baptist ministers. He spent from 1838 to 1845 in Oxfordshire, but 'the cold wet climate ... was affecting his health, and when he heard George Fife Angas and other representatives of the South Australian Company offered him a position as president of a projected Baptist college in the warmer climate of the new colony he accepted, and arrived in the colony with his wife and four children aboard "Templar" in November 1845.... Plans for the Baptist college had been dropped for want of funds, so in 1846 he opened a private school "Angaston Manual Labour College" in Angaston, which he ran for around two years. In 1847 he was called to take over the Ebenezer Chapel in Brougham Place'.

Emily Stonehouse was one of the daughters of George Stonehouse.

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