[Rarebooks] FS: VICK'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, 1890-91, with 22 bright chromolithographs of flowers

[Charles Agvent]

[BOTANICAL CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS]. VICK'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, Volume XIII, 
1890, and [Volume XIV, 1891]. Rochester, NY: James Vick Seedsman, 1890 & 
[1891]. First Edition. Two octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in 
dark green publisher's blindstamped cloth. Illustrated with 22 bright 
chromolithographs of flowers. The 1891 volume ends with the October 
issue and contains the final chromolithograph of the series. The October 
1891 issue announced that beginning with the next issue Vick's Magazine 
would be enlarged to three columns a page and its price reduced to fifty 
cents a year. Henceforth, it would be published by the Vick Publishing 
Company, with the seed business to be conducted by James Vick's Sons. 
The new magazine would not be as "pretentious" as CENTURY, HARPER'S or 
SCRIBNER'S, "but in proportion to the price will contain fully as much 
matter." Two hundred thousand copies of the first issue were printed. 
The new magazine contained more literature on general topics than 
before, and gone were the beautiful color frontispieces. Slight fraying 
of outer edges of three plates in the second volume, which lacks its 
title page. Bright, clean copies inside and out. Fine. (#018489)        $350

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