The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste: Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, &c.; Edited by A. J. Downing -- vol. 3 -- July 1848 to June 1849
Albany, NY: Luther Tucker, 1849. Hardcover. 584 p., 13 leaves of plates: many in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Half calf with six spine compartments; gilt-tooled spine title and volume number. Pink-and-black marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Imprint includes: Joseph Breck and Co., Boston; M. H. Mewman and Co., New York, and Geo. B. Zieber, Philadelphia. Bookplates on front fixed endpaper for former owners Abington Library Society, and John Lambert. The founder of American landscape architecture, Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852) was the editor of The Horticulturist from its founding in 1846 until his death in 1852. Articles include: Prof. Shepard on Agricultural Schools [by C. U. Shepard of Amherst College]; Description of the Polmaise Mode of Heating Green-Houses; Culture of Foreign Grapes in Pots by Geo. Kidd; The Morale of Rural Life by Geo. Jaques; and numerous articles on architecture and landscape architecture by A. J. Downing. Scarce. In Good Condition: leather over spine is detached along front joint and separated along back joint; cover is rubbed; foxing on title page, 2 plates, and final page; otherwise, almost no foxing; clean and solid. Good. Item #010984
Price: $75.00