£60
8vo, pp. [iv], 187, [1], 4 [ads]. Original pebbled blue cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered direct in gilt. Boards a little marked and soiled, spine lightly sunned. Ownership inscription of Annie M. Martin to flyleaf dated January 30th 1879, Martin label to title-page, a few notes to margins and rear flyleaf.
An unusual book 'written to supply the want of a text-book on the subject of Domestic Economy and Medicine, that would be suited in its size and price, to the used of female students in Training Institutions, and to the elder classes in Girls' schools,' per the preface. Its author, W.B. Tegetmeier (1816-1912), was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin and is credited with explaining the hexagonal shape of honeycomb cells in a hive. The present work contains a section on beekeeping as part of a larger section of management of domestic animals, as well as a chapter on poisons and a section of 'Directions for Restoring the Apparently Dead'.
Despite its evident popularity in reaching a tenth edition (and a 14th by 1894) it is scarce institutionally: the earliest edition recorded in Library Hub is a 4th from 1858, with each printing represented by a small handful of holdings and this tenth edition, to which Tegetmeier contributes a new preface, recorded in a single copy only, at Leeds.
