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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Paperback in good condition for its age. Covers are foxed arount the edges, and edges are creased and bumped, including a chip at the front upper edge, and small tears at the spine ends. A few light spots of foxing noted on the page block and on some of the pages. Pages are otherwise clear, and binding is sound. LW. Used.…

Softcover. Zustand: Used - Good. None. Spine, binding and cover all fine though a little faded and very slightly tanning. Very slight tear (less than half an inch) at foot of spine. Contents very clean with no inscription. 127 pages.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1958. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Although Rothamsted is not concerned with animal research, it is not altogether inappropriate that what is probably the finest collection of prints and paintings of British farm livestock should be housed in its library; for Rothamsted attracts from all parts of the world numerous visitors whose interests range over every branch of agriculture. More-over, the livestock prints constitute an appropriate parallel to our collec-tion of early agricultural books which is justly regarded as one of the richest in existence. My predecessor, Sir John Russell, acquired a considerable number of the prints, but it was the bequest of the late Lord Northbrook which raised the collection to the first rank. Francis, fourth Baron Northbrook, who died in 1947, had for many years been an enthusiastic connoisseur and collector of British livestock prints, and combined a thorough knowledge of livestock with a discerning aesthetic judgement of representations of them. It was not surprising, therefore, that whe.…

First Edition. History of the Manor - includes a plan and folding genealogical table to the rear. Covers unevenly faded otherwise VG.

8vo., First Edition, with 54 plates on 32; original pale blue wrappers printed in red and black, backstrip very lightly browned else a near fine copy. SCARCE.