Cotton (William Charles) My Bee Book, first edition, J. G. F. & J. Rivington, St. Paul's Churchyard & Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, 1842; and another, by the same (2)

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First edition

Cotton (William Charles) My Bee Book, first edition, wood-engraved additional pictorial title, 7 plates, vignettes and illustrations, occasional spotting or light staining, endpapers foxed, contemporary half calf, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [British Bee Books 238], J. G. F. & J. Rivington, St. Paul's Churchyard & Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, 1842; and another, by the same, 8vo (2) *** With the usual erratic pagination. Cotton (1813-1879), Anglican priest, missionary and beekeeper, who introduced the skills of beekeeping to North Island, New Zealand.

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