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BROOKSHAW, George.

The Horticultural Repository, Containing Delineations of the Best Varieties of the Different Species of English Fruits:

to which are also added, Delineations of the Blossoms and Leaves, in those Instances in which they are Considered Necessary, together with Descriptions of each Fruit, its Time of Ripening, and a Variety of other Observations essential to the Successful Pr

Stock Code
106522
London, Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1823
£5,000

First edition. Devoted entirely to edible fruit and nuts, this work was issued periodically and completed in July 1823. The preface, written anonymously, records Brookshaw's death in 'the course of the last winter', going on to say 'it is hoped... that the present work... will... form a suitable monument to Brookshaw's genius and talent.' George Brookshaw was considered as one of the finest fruit illustrators of his time and his great work, the Pomona Britannica, is regarded as the equal in its own field in importance and quality to Thornton's Temple of Flora.

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Description

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo, (24.6 x 15.5 cm); 104 hand-coloured stipple engraved illustrations of fruit on 98 plates, including 7 folding, scattered light spotting, occasional offsetting, some plates trimmed by the binder (as usual); contemporary green morocco, blind and gilt embossed, all edges gilt, corners slightly rubbed, overall a very good copy of a scarce work; vii, [iv], 96; 104pp.

Bibliography

Dunthorne 56; Great Flower Books p155.

Stock ID:106522

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