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LINDLEY, John (1799-1865). Pomologia Britannica; or, figures and descriptions of the most important varieties of fruit cultivated in Great Britain. London: J. Moyes for Henry G. Bohn, 1841.
3 volumes, 8° (236 x 145mm). 152 hand-coloured engraved plates including 5 double-page by W. Clark and S. Watts after C. M. Curtis and Mrs. Withers. (Small tear to outer margin of plate 15.) Contemporary beige half morocco, gilt (spines rubbed, traces of modern shelfmark at foot). Provenance: George Anthony Legh Keck (armorial bookplates); Northamptonshire Institute of Agriculture (library stamps on versos of front endpapers).
The work is a reissue of the plates of Lindley's The Pomological Magazine, published by James Ridgeway between 1828 and 1830. Nissen BBI 1203; Dunthorne 184; Great Flower Books p. 65. (3)
3 volumes, 8° (236 x 145mm). 152 hand-coloured engraved plates including 5 double-page by W. Clark and S. Watts after C. M. Curtis and Mrs. Withers. (Small tear to outer margin of plate 15.) Contemporary beige half morocco, gilt (spines rubbed, traces of modern shelfmark at foot). Provenance: George Anthony Legh Keck (armorial bookplates); Northamptonshire Institute of Agriculture (library stamps on versos of front endpapers).
The work is a reissue of the plates of Lindley's The Pomological Magazine, published by James Ridgeway between 1828 and 1830. Nissen BBI 1203; Dunthorne 184; Great Flower Books p. 65. (3)