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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 224 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.51 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Shelf and edge wear to the cover. Rubing and fading to the cover. Inside front hinge has cracked but remains intact. Foxing/staining has occurred on the pages.

Half-Leather. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good (-). No Jacket. First Edition. Title continues: Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, etc. 12 issues bound together. Starts with an index, followed by the issues. Each issue except No. I has an engraved frontis. Each issue has the same elaborate engraved headpiece. Condition notes: (viii) 576 numbered pp; HB. Pages: generally clean, ivory/foxed, tight, speckled edgestain, frontis; foxing especially heavy to eps, a.e. sunned, dates penciled to several front us versos. Cover: quarter leather, marbled paper over boards with leather back strip and tips, four raised bands, gilt titles spine; modest shelfwear, extrems worn especially at head/tail, bands scuffed as is leather at extrems, boards modestly rubbed.

Half-Leather. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good (-). No Jacket. First Edition. Title continues: Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, etc. 12 issues bound together. Starts with an index, followed by the issues. Each issue except No. I has an engraved frontis. Each issue has the same elaborate engraved headpiece. Condition notes: (viii) 576 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight, speckled edgestain, frontis; a.e. sunned, eps a bit toned. Cover: quarter leather, marbled paper over boards with leather back strip and tips, four raised bands, gilt titles spine; lt shelfwear, extrems mildly worn more so at head/tail, leather a bit worn at extrems, boards modestly rubbed, scuffs to back f.e.

Illustrated. viii, [ii],[9]-576; viii, [9]-576 pp. 2 vols. Thick 4to. Compendium of information about horticulture in America at the midpoint of the nineteenth century, with wood-engraved illustrations touching upon fruit growning, trees, rural cottages, landscape architecture, and more. With a distinguished and interesting provenance: the ownership signatures and bookplates of Edwin A. Stevens (1795-1868), New Jersey industrialist, railroad pioneer, and philanthropist whose will established and endowed the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. Original brown blindstamped ribbed cloth, some wear to spines. Signed on the front free endpaper by Edwin A. Stevens, Hoboken, and with his bookplate Illustrated. viii, [ii],[9]-576; viii, [9]-576 pp. 2 vols. Thick 4to.