[Rarebooks] F/S 1842 Agricultural Newspaper Joseph Breck

[Garry R Austin]

We offer the following net to at $75 and postpaid;

Putnam, Allen, Editor. New England Farmer And Horticultural Register. Boston: Joseph Breck & Company, 1842-1843. 	       $75.00 
Volume XXXI No’s 15-37, October 12, 1842- March 15, 1843. Quarto; Twenty-three individual consecutive issues, each comprising 8 pages each;  pp. 113-296 of the Year. Illustrated with woodcuts mostly of equipment in the advertisements; very good, printed on a fine grade paper that remains supple;
Joseph Breck was the editor of the New England Farmer, one of the earliest agricultural magazines established in the U.S., and the first of its kind in New England. In 1833, Breck wrote a book called The Young Florist, which is an ongoing dialogue between two young gardeners in order to present information about flowers and natural history as it relates to flower cultivation. In 1840, Breck published his company’s first catalog, the New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store Catalogue, to promote his company’s products. The catalog included illustrations and horticultural literature to accompany product listings. In 1856, he published The Flower Garden, a book about the cultivation of ornamental plants such as perennials, annuals, shrubs and evergreen trees. One of the founding members of the American Seed Trade Association, Breck was the president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society from 1859 to 1862.

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