[Rarebooks] FS: THE POMOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, 1828-39, with 96 Fine Hand-Colored Engravings

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new catalog containing a variety of fine books: 
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LINDLEY, John. THE POMOLOGICAL MAGAZINE; OR, FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF 
THE MOST IMPORTANT VARIETIES OF FRUIT CULTIVATED IN GREAT BRITAIN. 
London: James Ridgway, 1828-39. First Edition. Volumes I - II (of 3) in 
contemporary calf leather-backed boards, octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/4"). 
Illustrated with 96 hand-colored engraved plates, 3 folding, by S. Watts 
and W. Clark after Mrs Augusta I. Withers and Charles M. Curtis, many 
heightened with gum arabic. The missing third volume brought the total 
plate count to 152. Pomologist Robert Thompson provided the core of the 
text. The Magazine was published "in the hope of protecting the public 
... a nurseryman not possessing a variety is no proof that it is 
undeserving ... although it may be an evidence of his own want of 
enterprise" (POMONA'S HARVEST, page 306). The work was reissued in 1841 
as Lindley's POMOLOGIA BRITANNICA. Occasional spot or stain but the 
color is quite bold and fresh. Many plates with a small sticker or faint 
pencil notation in the upper blank margin not affecting the image. 
Bindings mostly broken with many loose pages but all text and plates are 
present. Bindings fair, plates Near Fine.

Brunet III, 1083; Nissen BBI 2235a (1841 edition); Pritzel 5365. 
(#018595)        $5,000.00

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