The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste: Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, &c.; Conducted by J. Jay Smith -- New Series vol. 8 -- Jan. to Dec. 1858
New York: C. M. Saxton, 1858. Hardcover. 576 p., 13 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations (including 1 hand-colored full-page illustration); 24 cm. Half calf. Pink-and-black marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Joseph Breck & Co., Boston; S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago; J. S. Waters, Baltimore; and W. B. Zeiber, Philadelphia. Bookplates on front fixed endpaper for former owners Abington Library Society, and John Lambert. Articles include: Design for a Country House by Myron B. Benton; Hybridizing the Grape by Augustus D. Rogers; Construction of Glass Houses by William Saunders; The Plant Hunters, or, Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Mayne Reid; A Few Hints on Church Building by F. C. Withers; Mount Vernon and the Ladies; and Plan of Hunting Park by William Saunders. Scarce. In Good- Condition: front board and front free endpaper are detached, but present; lacking leather over spine; paper over boards is scraped; occasional foxing; otherwise, clean and solid. Good -. Item #010973
Price: $85.00