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.