[Rarebooks] FS: Brookshaw's HORTICULTURAL REPOSITORY with 104 brilliant hand-colored plates of English Fruits

[Charles Agvent]

BROOKSHAW, George THE HORTICULTURAL REPOSITORY, CONTAINING DELINEATIONS 
OF THE BEST VARIETIES OF THE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF ENGLISH FRUITS...
Sherwood, Jones, & Co. London [1820]-23 First Edition. ...TO WHICH ARE 
ALSO ADDED, DELINEATIONS OF THE BLOSSOMS AND LEAVES, IN THOSE INSTANCES 
IN WHICH THEY ARE CONSIDERED NECESSARY, TOGETHER WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 
EACH FRUIT, ITS TIME OF RIPENING, AND A VARIETY OF OTHER OBSERVATIONS 
ESSENTIAL TO THE SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTION OF THE BEST KINDS. Two octavo 
(5-7/8" x 9-5/8") volumes newly bound in full green morocco with gilt 
rules, black morocoo spine labels with gilt lettering, five raised 
bands, and black-stamped spine decorations. Illustrated with 104 
hand-colored plates including 7 folding (actually 98 plates as 6 of the 
folding are counted as 2 plates) of a variety of English fruits. Nissen 
245. Brookshaw was a flower painter and little biographical information 
is known about him. His best-known work is POMONA BRITANNICA, perhaps 
the most beautiful fruit book. The plates in the present work, though 
smaller, are equally beautiful. Small blindstamp of a college library on 
the half title and title pages but nowhere else. Plates are trimmed 
close in some instances but never interfering with the images. 
Occasional mild stain, slight offsetting to one plate, but all are very 
attractive. A rare book, often broken for its lovely plates which 
typically sell, when found, for several hundred dollars each. Plates 
quite clean and bright. Binding handsome and Fine. Rare!  $12,500
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