Robert Hogg and Henry Graves Bull | The Herefordshire Pomona, 1876-1885, 2 volumes

Books from the Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven

Robert Hogg and Henry Graves Bull

The Herefordshire pomona, containing original figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears. Hereford: Jakeman and Carver and London: Journal of Horticulture Office, 1876–1885

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 4to (375 x 290mm.), 4 plain and 77 chromolithographed plates by Severeyns, Brussels most after Edith E. Bull (the author’s daughter) and Alice B. Ellis various artists, illustrations in the text of fruit cross sections, contemporary half morocco, spines gilt, gilt edges, without errata slip

"One of the finest fruit books ever issued" (Great Flower Books).

LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books, pp. 59-60; Nissen BBI 294; An Oak Spring Pomona 82