Wright's Book of Poultry, Revised and Edited in Accordance with the Latest Poultry Club Standards
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1912. Illustrated with Thirty Coloured Plates and Numerous Other Illustrations. 627 pp. 4to. 9-1/4" x 10-13/16." A beautiful embossed crimson cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Top edge gilt. A 1" x 1" black inked out patch on the free front endpaper. A touch of foxing on free front endpaper and back of frontispiece. But it does not affect the plate. A few pages bumped in top corner of text block. A touch of rubbing at corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Overall a very good copy. Item #459
Thorough and complete volume of all knowledge a fowl fancier would want to know, in 1912. Beautiful colored plates, from Speckled Sussex to Gold Spangled Hamburghs, from Buff Cochins to Silver-Grey Dorkings. Included is a chapter on Mendelism by so expert and practical a fancier as the Rev. E. Lewis Jones, B.A. These, if studied in conjunction with Wright's masterly chapter on pedigree or line breeding, will do much to keep poultry-keepers on right lines in raising stock, either for fancy or utility purposes. A further addition is a short life of Lewis Wright by the author.
Price: $250.00