Hogg (Robert & Henry Graves Bull, editors). The Herefordshire Pomona, 2 volumes, 1876-1885


Hogg (Robert & Henry Graves Bull, editors). The Herefordshire Pomona, containing original figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Hereford: Jakeman and Carver, London: Journal of Horticulture Office, 1876-1885, 77 fine chromolithograph plates by G. Severeynes, Brussels after Edith Bull, Alice Ellis and others, 4 uncoloured portraits and plates, errata slip, small closed tear at head of volume I title, occasional light spotting and offsetting to text, one or two plates with slight spotting and toning to margins (spotting and offsetting mainly confined to tissue guards), all edges gilt, later green half morocco gilt, spine ends rubbed, a few light marks, slipcases (rubbed with some wear), 4to, 37.5 x 28.5 cm QTY: (2) NOTE: Great Flower Books pp. 59-60; Nissen BBI 294. "One of the finest fruit books ever issued." (Great Flower Books).


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