The American Fruit Culturist
The American Fruit Culturist

John Jacob Thomas, 1875

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The American Fruit Culturist
John Jacob Thomas, 1875
THOMAS, John Jacob (1810-1895). The American Fruit Culturist. New York: William Wood & Co., 1875.

Revision copy of an important American horticulture book. Thomas's book was first published in 1846, proving popular and much re-reprinted. This copy has been heavily annotated and corrected with both pen and scissor, possibly by the publisher William Wood, whose newly enlarged edition came out in 1897.

Octavo (215 x 128mm). Chromolithograph frontispiece, in-text figures (text block cracked; some passages cut out or defaced, mostly in preface). Publisher's gilt-stamped cloth (worn).

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