Treatise on the breeding and management of livestock . comprising cattle, deer, sheep, goats, horses, rabbits, asses, poultry, mules, bees, pigs, fish &c &c &c in which the principles and proceedings of the new school of breeders are fully and experimentally discussed. To which are added directions for making butter and cheese, curing hams, pickling pork and tongues, preserving eggs, &c &c. With an appendix, containing tables of prices in the live and dead markets, some extraordinary sales of cattle and sheep, and other particulars. The whole interspersed with various information of importance to breeders, graziers, farmers, and the public at large. In two volumes... Elucidated by eight copper-plates, and several engravings on wood. By Richard Parkinson.
Richard Parkinson (1748-1815)
Category
Books
Date
1810
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Sheringham, Norfolk
NT 3117321
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. plates . 8vo.. Listed in c1900 manuscript catalogue in the Drawing Room. Provenance: Armorial bookplate inside front cover of both vols.: Abbot Upcher Sheringham [ie Abbot Upcher 1784-1819]. Binding: Nineteenth-century sprinkled calf binding with single gilt fillet and gilt tooled spine.
Makers and roles
Richard Parkinson (1748-1815)