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312.WiGHton, John. the history and Management of Bees, with notice of a newly-constructed hive. London and Norwich: Bacon, Kinnebrook and Bacon, Printers, Mercury Office for Longman and Co. and Bacon, Kinnebrook and Bacon, Mercury Office, 1842. £995
12mo in 6s (192 x 111mm). original light-red cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, uncut; pp. [4 (title, verso blank, preface, verso blank)], xii, 103, [1 (imprint)]; wood-engraved frontispiece depicting ‘improved Polish hive, upper Division open’ and wood-engraved illustrations in the text; very slightly rubbed and bumped at extremities, spine and outer parts of boards a little faded, some very light offsetting and browning on endpapers, nonetheless a very clean and crisp copy in the original cloth; provenance: [?Mrs hodges, carrow abbey (named subscriber, presumably Mrs anna Maria hodge or hodges, and by descent to:)] — s. hodges (bookplate on upper pastedown with a poem addressed to borrowers, ending with the admonition ‘read slowly: pause frequently: / think seriously: / keep cleanly: return duly / with the corners of the / leaves not turned / down.’ and with printed ‘lent to’ and ‘returned’ spaces completed in pencil with the information that Major Morell and borrowed the volume and returned it on 17 June 1907).
First edition. Wighton, who styles himself ‘gardener to lord stafford’ on the title-page of this work, explains in his preface that ‘the following pages are written with a view to add the results of a long personal experience of the habits of the honey Bee, to what is already known of its history. i have advanced nothing that has not been tested by experiment and supported by facts’, and the work seems to have been well-received by contemporary readers; one of the subscribers was the well-known landscape-gardener, and horticultural writer and editor John loudon, whose Gardener’s Magazine praised the work thus in its review: ‘Mr. Wighton has had great experience and great success in the management of bees; and this little work is the result. the newly constructed hive is on the Polish principle, which we can recommend from our own experience, as giving far less trouble than any other, both in general management and in taking the honey. We have given an account of the common Polish hive in the Encyclopedia of Gardening [first published by loudon in 1822, with subsequent editions]. Mr. Wighton’s improvement on it consists chiefly in dividing it into two compartments, and introducing two panes of glass for the purpose of observing the proceedings of the bees. the great advantage of the Polish hive over those in common use is, that honey may be taken from it, when there is any to spare, without disturbing the bees, since it is done in the finest part of a sunny day, when most of the bees are out. We would strongly recommend a trial of these hives, and more especially as they may be made by any carpenter out of the trunk of a tree. Mr. Wighton’s consists of the root end of a spruce fir, 9 ft. long, and 3 ft. 9 in. in circumference, from which the centre wood has been hollowed out. in many parts of scotland, where the disease called pumping prevails among larch trees, excellent Polish hives may be had, almost ready made. again, we strongly recommend the hive and mr. Wighton’s book to all who keep bees, and more especially to gentlemen’s gardeners’. the register of subscribers on pp. [i]-vi suggests that they accounted for about 230 copies of the work, and also shows that the gardeners of royalty and the aristocracy embraced the work eagerly, since it includes the gardeners to Queen Victoria (at hampton court); the earls of rosebery, shrewsbury, leinster, leicester, Fitzwilliam, and orford;
the Dukes of northumberland, Devonshire (at both chiswick and chatsworth), 314
Buckingham, sutherland, Bedford, Wellington, leeds, hamilton, Buccleuch, newcastle, Portland, and norfolk; the lord Bishop of norwich; Baroness rothschild; and sir J. thorold, Bt of syston Park — particularly notable amongst these is the landscape gardener, architect, writer, and friend of loudon, sir Joseph Paxton in his capacity as the gardener at chatsworth.
Wighton’s The History and Management of Bees is a rare work, particularly in commerce; in the uK, coPac only locates copies at the five copyright libraries, and we cannot trace it in anglo-american auction records since 1975.
British Bee Books 243.
313.Wilde, oscar. salome. a tragedy in one act. John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1920.
£175
small 4to. original red cloth with bold Beardsley design in gilt on upper board. pp. xviii + [2] + 66 + [2, advertisements]; 16 designs by aubrey Beardsley; small splash mark on upper boards, ink date, otherwise a very good copy.
lane’s fourth edition with Beardsley illustrations, produced in large format to match his edition of Under the Hill. contains a note on Salome by robert ross and reproductions of programs for the first english production (10 May 1905) and for richard strauss’s opera which used a translation of Wilde’s text (9 December 1905).
Lasner 59P
314.Wilde, oscar. the Ballad of reading gaol. Methuen & Co., 1924.
£498
8vo, cloth-backed, paper-covered boards, paper label on upper board; woodcuts by Frans Maserell; small mark on lower board, showing slight signs of browning as usual but nonetheless a very good copy.
limited edition, 224 of 450.
315. Wilde, oscar. the letters, edited by rupert hart-Davis. Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. 1962.
£98
royal 8vo. original red buckram with dust wrapper, a very good copy. First edition.
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