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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Legare Street Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London, Printed for the Agricultural Society of Herefordshire, by W. Bulmer and Co. and sold by W. Hooker, 1811.. TITLE CONTINUED: Accompanied with a Descriptive Account of each Variety. FIRST EDITION 1811. 4to, approximately 310 x 240 mm, 12 x 9½ inches, 30 fine hand coloured plates, in line stipple and aquatint, engraved and coloured by William Hooker, 27 after Elisabeth Matthews and 3 after Frances Knight, Plate 1 is the only plate with the artist and engraver printed at lower edge. Pages: title page, [viii], [37] - unnumbered descriptive pages of text, rebound in modern half red morocco, 2 gilt lettered black labels, gilt floral decoration between raised bands, gilt date at foot, marbled boards and endpapers, and cream fly leaves. Title page lightly creased, 9 pages including 2 plates have pale browning to lower corner (see attached images), pale offset from images to text, some light foxing to text and blank side of plates, 16 plates are clean, the rest have small patches of pale staining to… Read More

Birdsall and Son. Very Good. 1811. Hardcover. vii + 30 handcoloured engraved plates of apples, modern half green moroco/green cloth gilt raised bands title page of original paper boards tippes in , 2 front endpapers, together with heraldic book plate Volare Sperno, [Bird family of Herefordshire] and second later bookplate JW Lloyd of Kington, also original booksellers plates - Thomas Carver Hereford. A magnificent book; Folio - .