Hooper's Western Fruit Book; a Compendius Collection of Facts from the Notes and Experiences of Successful Fruit Culturists, arranged for Practical Use in the Orchard and Garden

8vo [19.5 x 13.5 cm]; x, 11-333, [iii, ads] pp, frontis lithographed plate (portrait), 4 hand colored plates of fruit, tissue guards, 6 figures on 4 other plates describing the summer fruit house from plans of John C. Schooley. original blind-stamped cloth with gilt vignettes and lettering on spine, a fine copy with only light signs of use, well-preserved. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Hedrick 493: 'One of the Cincinnati horticultural circle, which just before the civil war included probably the most enthusiastic horticulturalists in American was E. J. Hooper, who in 1857 published Hooper's Western Fruit Book. It was published in Cincinnati and was considered not only an authoritative treatise, but a fine illustration of the printer's art since it had color plates as well as black and white illustrations. In all parts of the West in the middle of the nineteenth century, what was written in Hooper was the final word.' Massachusetts Horticultural Society Catalogue 146.