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FARM CONVENIENCES: A Practical Hand-Book for the Farm: Two Hundred and Twelve Illustrations

NY: Orange Judd Co, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Item #2411010

Reprinted several times, this is the 1st printing. Decorated and gilded cloth (several hand tools slightly blind-stamped around a circle that has a sickle and the title in gilt). 240pp. Illus. Frontispiece of a milking shed. Decorated endpapers. Ink name / place of previous owner (likely original owner) "Andrew Sproat / Aspder? / Ontario." Condition fair to good: front hinge exposed following frontispiece, leaf pp 23-24 formerly loose and gently tipped back in. Pages flexible but stiff paper. Covers moderately worn at the extremities. Binding tight. Very scarce.

Price: $85.20