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1880373348Cassel & Co London Undated c.1880. Unframed Print. Good Condition. This print from The Illustrated Book of Poultry published by Cassell around 1880 is a landmark of Victorian natural history and domestic animal literature. Authored by Lewis Wright and illustrated by J.W. Ludlow it combined meticulous breeding knowledge with sumptuous chromolithographic plates making it both a practical manual and a visual delight with lavish Illustrations: Ludlows chromolithographs depict prize-winning fowl cocks hens ducks geese turkeys with striking realism and personality. Each bird is shown in a naturalistic setting often with its name owner and exhibition honours noted. Beyond its agricultural impact the book reflects Victorian ideals of order beauty and improvement turning the humble chicken into a subject of aesthetic and scientific admiration. The surrounding area to this rare Victorian era colour print is a little worn and mildly marked by handling over the last 140 or so years but when the print is put into a mount for framing this trivial defect will disappear from sight. The print is approx. 17 x 20 cms on a sheet about 21 x 27 cms. Category: PRINTS : Antiquarian Interest; PRINTS : Wright's Poultry; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cassel & Co unknown
1880373338Cassel & Co London Undated c.1880. Unframed Print. Good Condition. This print from The Illustrated Book of Poultry published by Cassell around 1880 is a landmark of Victorian natural history and domestic animal literature. Authored by Lewis Wright and illustrated by J.W. Ludlow it combined meticulous breeding knowledge with sumptuous chromolithographic plates making it both a practical manual and a visual delight with lavish Illustrations: Ludlows chromolithographs depict prize-winning fowl cocks hens ducks geese turkeys with striking realism and personality. Each bird is shown in a naturalistic setting often with its name owner and exhibition honours noted. Beyond its agricultural impact the book reflects Victorian ideals of order beauty and improvement turning the humble chicken into a subject of aesthetic and scientific admiration. The surrounding area to this rare Victorian era colour print is a little worn and mildly marked by handling over the last 140 or so years but when the print is put into a mount for framing this trivial defect will disappear from sight. The print is approx. 17 x 20 cms on a sheet about 21 x 27 cms. Category: PRINTS : Antiquarian Interest; PRINTS : Wright's Poultry; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cassel & Co unknown
1880373336Cassel & Co London Undated c.1880. Unframed Print. Good Condition. This print from The Illustrated Book of Poultry published by Cassell around 1880 is a landmark of Victorian natural history and domestic animal literature. Authored by Lewis Wright and illustrated by J.W. Ludlow it combined meticulous breeding knowledge with sumptuous chromolithographic plates making it both a practical manual and a visual delight with lavish Illustrations: Ludlows chromolithographs depict prize-winning fowl cocks hens ducks geese turkeys with striking realism and personality. Each bird is shown in a naturalistic setting often with its name owner and exhibition honours noted. Beyond its agricultural impact the book reflects Victorian ideals of order beauty and improvement turning the humble chicken into a subject of aesthetic and scientific admiration. The surrounding area to this rare Victorian era colour print is a little worn and mildly marked by handling over the last 140 or so years but when the print is put into a mount for framing this trivial defect will disappear from sight. The print is approx. 17 x 20 cms on a sheet about 21 x 27 cms. Category: PRINTS : Antiquarian Interest; PRINTS : Wright's Poultry; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cassel & Co unknown
1880373346Cassel & Co London Undated c.1880. Unframed Print. Good Condition. This print from The Illustrated Book of Poultry published by Cassell around 1880 is a landmark of Victorian natural history and domestic animal literature. Authored by Lewis Wright and illustrated by J.W. Ludlow it combined meticulous breeding knowledge with sumptuous chromolithographic plates making it both a practical manual and a visual delight with lavish Illustrations: Ludlows chromolithographs depict prize-winning fowl cocks hens ducks geese turkeys with striking realism and personality. Each bird is shown in a naturalistic setting often with its name owner and exhibition honours noted. Beyond its agricultural impact the book reflects Victorian ideals of order beauty and improvement turning the humble chicken into a subject of aesthetic and scientific admiration. The surrounding area to this rare Victorian era colour print is a little worn and mildly marked by handling over the last 140 or so years but when the print is put into a mount for framing this trivial defect will disappear from sight. The print is approx. 17 x 20 cms on a sheet about 21 x 27 cms. Category: PRINTS : Antiquarian Interest; PRINTS : Wright's Poultry; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cassel & Co unknown
188057897London: Cassell's Poultry Book. c.1880. This series which is widely regarded as the most desirable of the English poultry books contains beautifully lithographed examples of the pure-bred fowl praising the owner by implication and listing where appropriate the cup or ribbon won. This plate depicts Mr L. Wright's Dark Brahma pullet " Psyche" first prize at Birmingham 1871. Single plate. Size: 17 x 20 cm. 6½ x 8 inches Fine condition. unknown
1880221533London.: Cassell and Company Limited. circa1880. Chromolithograph 19.2 x 24.2 cms including captions preserved in a simple blonde timber frame some toning to the print margins but the print in very good condition. Attractive poultry plate published in "Cassell's Dairy Farming" with pairs of Light Brahmas Houdans Minorcas Brown and White Leghorns. . Cassell and Company Limited unknown
1870Pa129London: Ward Lock & Co. 1870. 1st Edition . Hardback. Vg. 8vo. xii 353-832.16 pp ads Illustrated throughout with text woodcuts including 5 colour plates as listed. Original red cloth decorated in the late Victorian style with floral blocked decoration in black and with a gilt title block bordering the titles. Matching spine. All edges gilt. Some foxing to the tissue guards. Undated but the B.L.copy states 1870. This attractive book was a reissue of part of 'The Book of Home Pets' in 1861. <br/> <br/> Ward, Lock & Co. hardcover
188521839Chicago: W.V.R. Powis 1885. Hardcover. Very good. 9 x 12 inches pp 208 3 with illustrations ads index. Bound in original brown cloth with bright gilt vignette of a poultry barn on front board. Corners rubbed small split at lower front joint two previous owners' names on front endpapers; text clean. Very good or better. First volume 12 issues of this popular periodical which billed itself as "a journal for every one interested in making poultry pay." The first issue assures the reader of the journals bona fides: "the editor is P. H. Jacobs of Hammonton N. J. who is a breeder of thirty years' experience and whose writings on agricultural topics have been more extensively circulated and read than those of any other contributor in the country the number of papers with which he has been connected as editor and contributor reaching the number of 600000 copies every month. He will also be assisted by some of the most eminent poultry breeders known and every effort will be made to make the new enterprise a complete success." Filled with articles on breeds and breeding coop and incubator construction managing behavior problems and disease storing and selling eggs and reports of profitable poultry operations and the latest show results the magazine was indeed a success reaching a circulation of 100000 and remaing in print through at least 1940. W.V.R. Powis hardcover
1872B0975H.H. Stoddard 1872-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Good-minus 1872 Stoddard large hardcover leather spine & corners marbled boards missing about a quarter of leather from spine moderate wear at corners & edges binding starting to crack at front pastedown- nothing loose name on inside cover in pencil faint water-stain grazes top margin of some interior pages- otherwise text is very nice with no markings found included Poultry World from January 1872 No. 1 to December 1874 No 12. H.H. Stoddard hardcover
