8vo. 63pp, [1]. Original publisher’s limp green cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to upper panel. Very minor shelf-wear. Contemporary ticket of Glasgow-based bookseller David Bryce to FEP.

A revised edition of chemist James Finlay Weir Johnston’s (1796-1855) immensely popular agricultural primer intended for the use of schools with a view to introducing children to the fundamentals of raising crops and tending to livestock. First published in 1844, the work went through more than thirty editions in Johnston's lifetime, and counted Tolstoy amongst its champions.