A practical treatise on humanity to honey bees; : or, Practical directions for the management of honey bees, upon an improved and humane plan, by which the lives of the bees may be preserved, and abundance of honey of a superior quality obtained / By Edward Townley.
Townley's love of the honey bee is exquisitely transparent in this call for an "improved and humane plan by which the lives of bees may be preserved and an abundance of honey of a superior quality obtained." It is especially poignant because it was written long before today's issues around colony collapse disorder.