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Title: Talpa; or the Chronicles of a Clay Farm
Description: London, Reeve and Co. [1852]. Cloth. Agricultural text adorned with lovely illustrations by George Cruikshank. Agricultural fragment, with practical instruction in manures and cultivation as well as its draining. This copy has no title page, exact publication date indiscernible however cover matches first edition publisher's binding of 1852. With four leaves of publisher's catalogue to rear. Adorned with illustrations by George Cruikshank. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally generally smart with shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Front free endpaper with some loss to upper and lower margin. Previous ownership ink inscription to front blank leaf. Title page excised. With half title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Good . Ill.: George Cruikshank. Good .

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