Description and condition: Brown cloth hardback, 8vo, pp xiv 410, index, glossary, b/w illustrations, frontis portrait of the authoress. Good copy with light cover wear, hinges starting to crack, newspaper clipping pasted in, else with nice clean pages. Contents: A Manual of Injurious Insects with Methods of Prevention and Remedy for their Attacks to Food Crops, Forest Trees, and Fruit. To Which is Appended a Short Introduction to Entomology. Second updated edition of the work originally published in 1881. |
