The Book of Poultry. With Practical Schedules for Judging constructed from actual Analysis of the Best Modern Decisions.. This item is unavailable.The Book of Poultry. With Practical Schedules for Judging constructed from actual Analysis of the Best Modern Decisions.

Size 10.75 x 9 inches. Bound in attractive brown half calf leather binding with gilt to spine. Raised bands. Brown cloth boards. All gilt edges and Marbledendpapers. Binding in FINE condition. Inside a few early corners a little rubbed on corners, some light foxing, last 3 pages of index have had some repairs, with some loss. Colour plates clean and bright. Else a clean and tight copy. viii, 591 pp., with 50 chromolithograph plates, and b/w plates and engravings in text. Comprehensive guide to the finer points of Poultry. Includes much technical information to aid judging with many fine colour plates. "Originally issued in parts from 1872. The oil lithograph plates by J. W. Ludlow were portraits of actual birds and dated [frontispiece with Mr John Douglas bk-breasted red game cock, nick-named "The Earl", shown at Crystal Palace in 1870]. Lewis Wright was the editor of the Fanciers' Gazette (later the Livestock Journal). There are two variants of the original edition; in the first the frontispiece is dated 1868. In what may be called the second impression the frontispiece is dated 1870." (Palmer, John. Poultry books: an annotated bibliography, 1990).…