A complete guide to the mystery and management of bees Containing Instructions how to manage them with respect to their Breeding, Gathering, Swarming, Hiving, Feeding, &c. to considerable Advantage: also, Directions whereby the Governor or Queen-Bee may be distinctly known; Together with Several curious Matters concerning them, deduced chiefly from Experience. Being the most valuable Discovery hitherto found out. By W. White, Sen. of Shutford, near Banbury, Oxon. Who, in the Year 1766, was honoured with a Premium, by the Society of Arts and Sciences, for his singular Abilities therein - White, William of Shutford (printed for the author; and sold by Richardson and Urquhart, at the Royal-Exchange; Isaac Taylor, near Chancery-Lane, Holborn; H. Turpin, St. John's-Street, West Smithfield; T. Goodacre, Brewer-Street, Golden-Square; and W. Todd, Adam and Eve Court, near the Pantheon, Oxford-Street, 1771)
At bottom right of title page: [Pr. 2s. 6d. bound.]
Dedication dated Sept. 1771
English Short Title Catalog, T111994
Reproduction of original from British Library
The final leaf contains an explanation of the frontispiece