Published by Edinburgh: Printed by J. Moir, etc, 1795. First edition., 1795
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
Small 4to. Full contemporary marbled sheep, treated as tree-calf, spine ruled in gilt and titled in gilt on a red panel. Some rubbing to spine and hinges, small ownership sticker on inner front cover, signature on upper title, generally a clean and attractive very good copy. This copy with the half-title, Subscriber's List, and final ad/errata leaf all present. British Bee Books 151, wherein the author James Bonner (who was Bee-Master at Auchencrow, near Berwick-on-Tweed), is described as 'the most able and the best known of Scottish bee-men'. This book is an expansion of his earlier publication: The Bee-master's Companion and Assistant (1789).