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Fruit Propagating, Management and Culture Books Including First Editions

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Title and Author/Editor A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy: Timber Trees: Fruits (1829), Fruit Culture for the Amateur (W. F. McKenzie, 1947), Fruit=Culture for Amateurs: An Illustrated Practical Handbook on the Growing of Fruits in the Open and Under Glass (S. T. Wright, 1898), The American Fruit Book; Containing Directions for Raising, Propagating, and Managing Fruit Trees, Shrubs and Plants, with a Description of the Best Varieties of Fruit, Including New and Valuable Kinds (S. W. Cole, 1858), Diary of a Scotch Gardener at the French Court at the End of the Eighteenth Century (Thomas Blaikie, 1931), Harvesting and Storing Garden Fruit (Raymond Bush, 1947), The Scottish Gardener: A Magazine of Horticulture and Floriculture: Volume III (1854), Home-Grown Fruit (Jane Eastoe, 2007), Soft Fruit (Roy Genders), The Plant Hunters; or, Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains (Captain Mayne Reid, 1889), A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees; In Which a New Method of Pruning and Training is Fully Described (William Forsyth, 1818)
Genre Biography, Autobiography and Memoirs, Home and Garden, Reference
Type of Illustration Engraving, Halftone, Offset Lithograph
Binding Leather, Half leather with marbled boards, Cloth on board
Dust Jacket Yes, No
Publication Year 1818–2007
Period Late 19th/ Early 20th Century, 20th Century, 2000s
Edition Statement Garden Book Club Edition, Revised Edition, First Edition, Later Edition
Number of Books 11

Condition

- wear to covers and dust jackets with chipping, fraying, bumped corners, rubbed edges and soiling; graphite and ink writing to endpapers, flyleaves and title pages; split gutters, bowing, cocked spines, cracked hinges and loose pages; missing cover, detached pages, loose binding thread and stamping to A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees; tanning, fading and foxing to text edges and text blocks; condition varies per volume.

Dimensions

1.0" W x 8.75" H x 6.0" D

- measures Diary of a Scotch Gardener.

Item #

ITMG596598

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