The Horticultural Repository. Containing delineations of the best varieties of the different species of English Fruits.

Brookshaw, George.

Published by 1st. Ed. Pub. London. [1820] -1823

About this Item

Two volumes bound as one. Ex Stoke-on-Trent City Library copy, bound in ochre coloured boards - near fine condition. Spine indicates Vol. I , but it is in fact both volumes, complete with the 104 hand-coloured plates as called for (7 fold-out). Neat blind-stamp on title page through to p.2 and first plate, no further lib. markings. Measures 9 1/4 in by 5 3/4 in., with some plates trimmed when rebound. Volume 1 has full-title (not half title); whilst in volume 2 both full and half-titles removed. Overall contents very clean and in near fine condition. Two of the fold-out plates show some superficial wear to image at folds. Overall a very good, ex-library copy of this scarce and sought after work. The best English fruit varieties were featured.in Brookshaw s Horticultural Repository , which laid out verbally and visually the essential observations for a successful fruit plantation. (from Pomona Britannica , (2002) pub. Taschen).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Horticultural Repository. Containing delineations of the best varieties of the different species of English Fruits.
• Publisher: 1st. Ed. Pub. London. [1820] -1823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fine illustrated and antiquarian Gardening