The tea planter’s manual

With coloured lithographed plans of an iron, and a wood-and-stone, tea factory, drawn to scale. Colombo : A. M. & J. Ferguson, 1886. Octavo, Ceylonese binding of plum papered boards, title label to upper board (edges rubbed), owner’s name to title leaf (recto and verso), xxiv; errata leaf, ‘memo’ slip, 162, xvi (advertisements), two very large folding plans of tea factories, ragged tear across pp. 93-94, folding chromolithographed plates, vignette illustrations, occasional scattered foxing.

Very scarce guide to tea planting and production printed at the press of the “Colombo Observer” in Colombo, Ceylon.