A Treatise on the History and Management of Ornamental and Domestic Poultry

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A Treatise on the History and Management of Ornamental and Domestic Poultry. By Rev. Edmund Saul Dixon, A.M., With Large Additions by J.J. Kerr, M.D. Illustrated with Sixty-Five Original Portraits, Engraved Expressly for This Work. Fourth Edition, Revised. C.M. Saxton and Company, New York, 1857, frontispiece, full-page engravings, 480 pp, original publisher s cloth, 8 x 5.5 , 8vo. In fair condition. Light wear to extremities with minor crushing of corners. Backstrip cloth with one original tear across center & several vertical tears towards top & slight chip at bottom. Top compartment split. Light soiling to surface of cloth. Light toning throughout with scattered, continuous foxing. The occasional instance of age staining. Free of known markings or ownership. Binding remains intact and tight. Please see photos. Scarce. In 1836 Charles Dickens wrote a letter to the publisher John Macrone introducing "my friend the Reverend Mr. Dixon, who after contributing to the New Monthly, and Metropolitan, has just come up to town with a Novel which he wishes to publish" (Pilgrim Letters, I, 186). In the volumes of the New Monthly and Metropolitanof the early 1830s, many items are un¬signed (or signed by a pseudonym); of the signed items, none is signed Dixon; thus, it is not possible to establish "the Reverend Mr. Dixon" of Dickens's letter as Edmund Saul Dixon, but the identification seems probable. At all events, Edmund Saul Dixon and Dickens seem to have been acquainted. In June 1849, Dixon presented to Dickens a copy of Ornamental and Domestic Poultry inscribed to him with the author's "sincere and kind respect". N° de ref. del artículo COLN1857BMNW

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