Milton (John) The Practical Bee-Keeper; or, Concise and plain instructions for the management of bees and hives, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and title vignette of apiaries, wood-engraved illustrations of hives and apparatus in text, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end, a few pencil annotations, occasional spotting, finger soiling, original green blind-stamped and gilt cloth, small word 'Bee' within two horizontal rules in ink to spine, faded, a few ink spots, stained, some rubbing to extremities, John W. Parker, 1843 § Ellis (William) Chiltern and Vale Farming Explained, lacking frontispiece, contemporary calf, cracked joints, bumping and chipping to spine ends and corners, rubbed to extremities, for Weaver Bickerton, [1733] § A New System of Agriculture; or, a plain, easy, and demonstrative method of speedily growing rich, second edition, one or two chips to margins, occasional spotting, ink ownership signature to title, contemporary calf, joints cracked, rubbed to extremities with loss to lower cover, A. Millar, 1755, some browning and staining, ink ownership to front free endpaper, 8vo (3)

⁂ The first mentioned includes 'A Chronological list of books and writers upon the bee'. "Milton sold hives and honey at his Apiarian Repository, 175, Strand. He gives an interesting account of several foreign honeys. When Cotton went to New Zealand he appears to have left some notes with Milton, who used them in the 1843 edition of The Practical Bee-Keeper". (British Bee Books)