The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste: Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, &c.; Edited by A. J. Downing -- vol. 2 -- July 1847 to June 1848

576, [4] p., 11 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Half calf with six spine compartments; gilt-tooled spine title and volume number. Pink-and-black marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Joseph Breck and Co., Boston; M. H. Mewman and Co., New York, and Geo. B. Zieber, Philadelphia. Between the Sept. and Oct. issues are bound in 4 pages of advertisements; final pages contain a list of agents for The Horticulturist. Bookplates on front fixed endpaper for former owners Abington Library Society, and John Lambert. The founder of American landscape architecture, Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852) was the editor of The Horticulturist from its founding in 1846 until his death in 1852. Articles include: Remarks on Some of the New Pears by Samuel Walker; Ward's Cases -- The Best Mode of Growing Plants in Rooms by Wm. W. Valk; The Vineyards of the Ohio by A. H. Ernst; and numerous articles on architecture and landscape architecture by A. J. Downing. Scarce. In Good Condition: leather over spine is detached along back joint and separated along front joint; cover is rubbed; front hinge is weak; old dampstains on edges of two plates; foxing on title page, first page of index, and final few pages; otherwise, almost no foxing; clean and solid.…