[John Lindley] | The pomological magazine, 1828-1830, 3 volumes

[John Lindley]

The pomological magazine; or, figures and descriptions of the most important varieties of fruit cultivated in Great Britain. London: James Ridgway, 1828-1830

FIRST EDITION, 3 volumes, 8vo (245 x 150mm.), 152 hand-coloured engraved plates, some folding, contemporary green morocco gilt by Wright, gilt edges

AN ATTRACTIVE COPY. Lindley was secretary to the Royal Horticultural Society, and their library still bears his name. His stated aim of this work was “to make the Public accurately acquainted with those varieties of Fruit which are of sufficient importance to deserve cultivation in Great Britain; and secondly, to reconcile the discordant nomenclature of nursery-men and other cultivators”.

LITERATURE:

Dunthorne 184; Nissen BBI 1203

PROVENANCE:

Christopher Turnor (1809-1886), Stoke Rochford Library, armorial bookplate