HOOPER'S WESTERN FRUIT BOOK: A Compendius Collection of Facts, from the Notes and Experience of Successful Fruit Culturists, arranged for Practical Use in the Orchard and Garden

HOOPER, E[dward] J[ames]

Published by Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 25 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati [OH], 1857

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20 cm. (4 l.), ii, frontispiece, 333pp, (3 pp.) ads, 4 chromolithographic plates by Middleton, Wallace & Co., Lith., Cincinnati. Embossed green cloth faded with worn spine ends. The first four leave are plans by John C. Schooley of Cincinnati for a summer fruit house, printed on rectos only. Splendid frontispiece, also done by Middleton, Wallace & Co., of eleven named men around a table of fruit, including the strawberry-king, Nicholas Longworth, John P. Foote, A. H. Ernst, F. Pentland, S. S. Jackson, J. Sayer and Dr. J.A. Warder, E.J. Hooper (the author), Gabriel Sleath, Geo. Graham, and R. Buchanan.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HOOPER'S WESTERN FRUIT BOOK: A Compendius Collection of Facts, from the Notes and Experience of Successful Fruit Culturists, arranged for Practical Use in the Orchard and Garden
• Publisher: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 25 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati [OH]
• Publication Date: 1857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Western Americana
  • Americana