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LANGLEY (Batty): POMONA OR THE FRUIT-GARDEN ILLUSTRATED containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England, London, G. Strahan, R. Gosling, W. Mears etc., 1729
FIRST EDITION, folio (390 x 250 mm.), title printed in red and black, 68 engraved plates after Langley numbered to 79 including 11 double-page plates with two numbers (foremargins of 12 plates shaved; one plate with small marginal tear), contemporary panelled calf (neatly rebacked)
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH FRUIT BOOK. An 'interesting and important work on fruit rarely seen ...' (Dunthorne 175). Batty Langley is better known for his many works on architecture. Nissen BBI 1135; Hunt 478; Henrey 928
FIRST EDITION, folio (390 x 250 mm.), title printed in red and black, 68 engraved plates after Langley numbered to 79 including 11 double-page plates with two numbers (foremargins of 12 plates shaved; one plate with small marginal tear), contemporary panelled calf (neatly rebacked)
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH FRUIT BOOK. An 'interesting and important work on fruit rarely seen ...' (Dunthorne 175). Batty Langley is better known for his many works on architecture. Nissen BBI 1135; Hunt 478; Henrey 928