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Vick, James

Vick's Monthly Magazine

1883

151.34 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1883
Place of printing
Rochester, NY. published by James Vick
Author
Vick, James
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Gardening - General
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [23.5 x 16.5 cm]; viii, 392 pp, 13 fine colored lithographed (chromolithographed) plates from paintings, with tissue guards, plates on heavier paper, with hundreds of other illustrations from drawings, index. original green pictorial decorated publisher's cloth, gilt spine title lettering, very light cover wear, very good overall, interior is clean with fine impressions of plates, including of grapes, ornamental grasses, rose, other flowers. A picture of this The author owned a nursery and seed house in New York state and wrote and published many important gardening books. Rochester was an important publishing area at that time as well as a source of the printing of fine lithographs. This periodical (entitled Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine on the cover) was bound from monthly issues, each month issued with an attractive colored plate, the subscriber would return the monthly issues at the end of the year to the publisher for binding in cloth. A vast source of information on growing flowers, vegetables, trees. This is volume VI of the annual publication.