Henry Stephens Book Of The Farm

Stephens, Henry and Skinner, John S. (editor of The Farmers' Library - explanatory notes and remarks by) B&W text ill. color plate: THE BOOK OF THE FARM - VOLUME II -- PUBLISHED AS THE FARMERS' LIBRARY VOLUME III, New York Greeley & McElrath 1847
462pp, index

good+, 3/4 leather, marbled boards (hardcover) light edgewear Volume II only of THE BOOK OF THE FARM which was published as part of THE FARMERS' LIBRARY - "DETAILING THE LABORS OF THE FARMER, STEWARD, PLOWMAN, HEDGER, CATTLE-MAN, SHEPHERD, FIELD-WORKER, AND DAIRYMAID." Contents of this volume partially contain: Fattening; Driving and Slaughtering Swine; Corn Markets; Dunghills and Liquid-Manure Tanks; Cows, Calving, and Calves; Repairing the Fences of Grass-Fields; Making Butter and Cheese; Hay-Making; Lifting and Pitting Potatoes; Sowing Autumn Wheat; and, much, much more. Color plate of a "Five Year Old Ayrshire Cow", and technical plates follow text of: Threshing Machine; Crank Steam Engine; Steam Engine Boiler; Water Wheel; Norge Wheel; Broadcast Sowing Machine; Drill Sowing machine; and a few more. The plates are followed by a few more pages with articles entitles: MANURES, AMELIORATORS AND STIMULANTS; THE NUTRITION OF PLANTS; and THE ACTION OF SALT UPON VEGETATION.

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Henry Stephens & Robert Scott Burn: The Book of Farm-Buildings; their arrangement and construction. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and sons, 1861.

First edition (hardback). 8vo, xxxi, 562pp. Frontispiece, 1017 text illustrations, 29 plates (some folding) at the rear of the book. The book is in its original quarter black cloth binding, but please note that the spine is defective (about half of the spine is missing). There is foxing to the preliminary pages and the plates, but the contents are otherwise in very good condition (and tightly bound). Suitable as a reading, working or binding copy.

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Gross, John (editor) (Francis Bacon; Thomas Overbury; John Earle; Owen Felltham; Thomas Browne; Thomas Fuller; Samuel Butler; Jeremy Taylor; Abraham Cowley; John Dryden; Jonathan Swift; Joseph Addison; Richard Steele; Lord Chesterfield; Benjamin Franklin): THE OXFORD BOOK OF ESSAYS, Oxford, England Oxford University Press 1991
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(xxiii) 680 pp. Light wear on the corners with some minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: Of Truth; Of Revenge; Of Boldness; Of Innovations; and Of Masques and Triumphs by Sir Francis Bacon; A Chambermaid; and A Fair and Happy Milkmaid by SirThomas Overbury; An Antiquary; A Good Old Man; and A Pot Poet by John Earle; How the Distempers of these Times Should Affect Wise Men by Owen Felltham; On Dreams by Sir Thomas Browne; Of Anger by Thomas Fuller; A Degenerate Noble by Samuel Butler; Of Charity, or the Love of God by Jeremy Taylor; Of Avarice by Abraham Cowley; Chaucer - from Preface to the Fables by John Dryden; Good Manners and Good Breeding; and A Meditation Upon a Broom Stick by Jonathan Swift; Thoughts in Westminster Abbey; The Royal Exchange; Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey; and Sir Roger in Vauxhall by Joseph Addison; On Recollections of Childhood by Sir Richard Steele; Upon Affectation by Lord Chesterfield; The Levee by Benjamin Franklin; The Poor and their Betters by Henry Fielding; Dignity and Uses of Biography; Conversation; and Debtors' Prisons by Samuel Johnson; Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature by David Hume; On Dress; A Little Great Man; and On National Prejudices by Oliver Goldsmith; On War by James Boswell; Dream Children - from On Some Old Actors by Charles Lamb; On the Pleasure of Hating; and Brummelliana by William Hazlitt; Getting Up on Cold Mornings by Leigh Hunt; The Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth by Thomas de Quincey; Signs of the Times - excerpt by Thomas Carlyle; Lord Clive - excerpt by Lord Macaulay; On Secrecy by Sir Henry Taylor; Secular Knowledge not a Principle of Action by John Henry Newman; The Conservative by Ralph Waldo Emerson; The Haunted Mind by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Bentham and Coleridge - excerpt from Coleridge by John Stuart Mill; City of London Churches by Charles Dickens; Autour de mon Chapear by William Makepeace Thackeray; The Plumber by Anthony Trollope; Night and Moonlight by Henry David Thoreau; The Philosophy of Christianity by James Antony Froude; Thomas Carlye by George Eliot; Heine and the Philistines - excerpt from Heinrich Heine by Matthew Arnold; Evolution and Ethics - excerpt by T. H. Huxley; Dull Government by Walter Bagehot; Talking About Our Troubles by Mark Rutherford; Autobiography - excerpt by Sir Leslie Stephen; On Knowing what Gives Us Pleasure by Samuel Butler; Thoughts of God by Mark Twain; Sandro Botticelli by Walter Pater; Wasps by W. H. Hudson; Disintroductions by Ambrose Bierce; The Ph.D. Octopus by William James; London - excerpt by Henry James; Under the Early Stars by Alice Meynell; The Acorn Gatherer by Richard Jefferies; Aes Triplex by Robert Louis Stevenson; The True Critic - excerpt from The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde; Sir George Grove by George Bernard Shaw; The Censor of Plays by Joseph Conrad; A Visit to Walt Whitman by James G. Huneker; William James by John Jay Chapman; Intellectual Ambition; and Intuitive Morality by George Santayana; Cordova by Arthur Symons; On the Departure of a Guest by Hilaire Belloc; On Being Modern Minded by Bertrand Russell; A Clergyman by Sir Max Beerbohm; The Dream by Sir Winston Churchill; A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls; and On Sandals and Simplicity by G. K. Chesterton; Invective by Sir Desmond McCarthy; My Own Centenary by E. M. Forster; Creighton by Lytton Strachey; The Libido for the Ugly; and Funeral March by H. L. Mencken; Evening Parties by Rose Macaulay; Harriette Wilson; and The Death of a Moth by Virginia Woolf; Finnegans Wake by James Stephens; The Greatest Victorian by G. M. Young; Insouciance by D. H. Lawrence; What There Is to See at the Zoo by Marianne Moore; Marie Lloyd by T. S. Eliot; Symmetry and Repetition by Sir Lewis Namier; The Necessary Enemy by Katherine Anne Porter; The Sterner Sex by Rebecca West; The Colloid and the Crystal by Joseph Wood Krutch; On Being the Right Size by J. B. S. Haldane; Meditation on the Moon by Aldous Huxley; My Own Ten Rules for a Happy Marriage by James Thurber; The Toy Farm by J. B. Priestley; The Case fo Xanthippe by Robert Graves; A Preface to Persius by Edmund Wilson; About Myself by E. B. White; Our Half Hogarth by V. S. Pritchett; The Ant Lion by Cyril Connolly; Reflections on Gandhi by George Orwell; Well-Informed Critics... and How to Move in Them by Evelyn Waugh; The Lost Childhood by Graham Greene; Adams at Ease by Lionel Trilling; A New Westminster by Sir John Betjeman; The Faces of Buddha by Sir William Empson; The Snout by Loren Eiseley; What If...? English versus German and French by Jacques Barzun; In Search of Nib-Joy by Maruice Richardson; Young Hunger by M. F. K. Fisher; Churchill and Roosevelt - excerpt from Winston Churchill in 1940 by Sir Isaiah Berlin; To Err is Human by Lewis Thomas; Bad Poets by Randall Jarrell; Thomas Hobbes by H. R. Trevor-Roper; The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King by Elizabeth Hardwick; The Gangster as a Tragic Hero by Robert Warshow; The Homberg Hat by Richard Cobb; The People's Victor by Conor Cruise O'Brien; Movies on Television by Pauline Kael; The Marquis and the Madame by D. J. Enright; The Savage Seventh by Philip Larkin; The Crisp at the Crossroads by Reyner Banham; Stranger in the Village by James Baldwin; Robert Graves and the Twelve Caesars by Gore Vidal; La Paz by Jan Morris; A Visit from Royalty by Dan Jacobson; Is it Atlas, Yorick by P. J. Kavanagh; Columbus and Crusoe by V. S. Naipaul; The Bankrupt Man by John Updike; At the Dam by Joan Didion; About Face by Joseph Epstein; and A Blizzard of Tiny Kisses by Clive James. Second Printing Trade Paperback 8vo

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Dziemianowicz, Stefan; Weinberg, Robert and Greenberg, Martin (ed's.) E.G. Swain, Arthur J. Burks, R.H. Benson, Bernard Capes, Alan Brennert, Manly Wade Wellman, E. Hoffman Price, W.W. Jacobs, Mearle Prout, William F. Nolan, Fred Chappell, M.R. James: One Hundred Ghastly Little Ghost Stories ( 100 ) N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, 1993, 1st Edition, 4th Printing ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 1566191068
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