Farming for Profit

A Hand-Book for the American Farmer

by John E. Read

illustrated with 140 engravings 

First American edition.  Philadelphia:  J.C. McCurdy & Co., 1881  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Leather covers have black spine label with gilt title. 
• Boards show some wear, smudges, bumps, scuffing, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, worn, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine is abraded and worn, has black label and gilt text; ends are worn away.  See photos.  
• Binding has front cover attached by a thread, first signature loose, remainder of text block secure.  See photos. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some edgewear, staining at edges, owner's marks.
• Frontispiece is present and has intact tissue guard; tissue is foxed.  See photos.  
• Illustrations are bright and clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2025.0423

860 pages. 5 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches

First American Edition of this manual for the American farmer.  AS IS condition, with front cover almost completely detached and loose opening pages.  Leatherbound boards.  Interior is toned, very legible.  Illustrations in text, plus full-page plates in black and white, and two colored plates showing fruit crops.  

According to the title page, this volume was intended as "a practical work, devoted to Agriculture and Mechanics, Fruit-Growing and Gardening, Live-Stock, Business Principles, Home Life, and Showing how to make money, preserve health and secure happiness on the Farm."  Included in the illustrations are many of the agricultural machines that came into use in the late 19th century. 

Inscribed on the end paper "Carl Krause, Liverpool Ohio, R.F.D. No. 2."  Carl Krause (1860-1922) lived and farmed in Liverpool Township, Medina, Ohio, between Cleveland and Akron.  

Copyright by John E. Read 1880.  An edition dated 1880 was published by Bradley, Garretson in Brantford, Ontario.  The 1881 American edition was published by J.C. McCurdy & Company, in Philadelphia and also Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis.

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