Author Maxwell, Robert Birthdate b. 1695, d. 1765 Filename maxwell-1747 Manuscript n/a Date of composition 1747 Genre HANDB OTHER Edition The practical bee-master: or, a treatise, wherein the management of bees, both in common hives, and in the colony way, without killing them for their honey, is, step by step and on all probable occurrences, better and more particularly directed, than in any book hitherto published. Edinburgh. ESTC number T044122 Gale number CW106800475 Sample 9.1-36.36 Remarks Sample exceeds quota in order to make up shortfall in drummond-1718 and because of quotations in text.