Charles Mason Hovey
The Fruits of America
C.C. Little and Jas. Brown and Hovey & Co.
1847 - 1856
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Beautifully illustrated set of Hovey's Fruits of America.
- Sold as a set of 2.
- Charles Mason Hovey (American).
- The Fruits of America, Containing Richly Colored Figures, and Full Descriptions of all the Choicest Varieties Cultivated in the United States.
- Boston: C.C. Little and Jas. Brown and Hovey & Co., [1847]-1856.
- Quarto.
- Titles with wood-engraved vignettes, lithographic portrait frontispieces of Hovey and William Sharp, 96 chromolithographic plates by William Sharp & Son, and numerous woodcut illustrations.
- Includes subscriber's list in volume 1.
- Bound in three-quarter green polished calf, marbled boards, paneled spines with gilt titling by E. Lycett, with their blind-embossed stamp to the first three endpapers of volume 1 and first two endpapers of volume 2.
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GoodLight wear and rubbing.
Most tissue guards lacking, causing some offsetting.
Some foxing throughout.
Product is used.
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