Farming for Ladies by John French Burke first edition 1844

BURKE, John French. Farming for Ladies; or, a Guide to the Poultry-Yard, the Dairy and Piggery.
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1844.
 
First edition. Small 8vo. xviii, 511 pp., with one page of advertisements at the rear. Engraved frontispiece and numerous engraved illustrations and plans within the text. Contemporary red half-calf over red cloth boards, spine raised bands, gilt-ruled and lettered, gilt edges; yellow coated endpapers. Number “4” inked to front board. A very good copy: binding firm and clean, light rubbing at extremities, contents fresh.
 
An early manual addressing small-scale agriculture explicitly for a female readership, covering poultry keeping, dairying, pig husbandry, and associated domestic economies. A first-edition and uncommon in a smart contemporary binding.