By H. St. C. Bowle Evans
Colombo   Capper & Sons
7" by 4.5" [4], 71pp.
A very scarce booklet containing a treatise on tea manufacture and agriculture in Ceylon.
By H. St. C. Bowle Evans

1909 A Treatise on Tea Manufacture and Tea Agriculture in Ceylon

Colombo   Capper & Sons
7" by 4.5" [4], 71pp.
A very scarce booklet containing a treatise on tea manufacture and agriculture in Ceylon.
£75.00
: 0.5kgs / : 840A51

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Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

A fascinating guide to the manufacture and agriculture of tea in Ceylon by H. St. C. Bowle Evans, containing much useful information on the plucking, pruning, manuring, weeding, withering, rolling, and fermenting of tea among other. 

The first edition of this very scarce work, not found in any institutional library and rarely seen on the market.

Condition

In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding over paper covered boards. Externally sound with shelf wear, light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, minor staining marks and age toning to boards. Previous ownership inscription to front board, undated. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean.

Good

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