Vick's Monthly Magazine

1882

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Year of publication

1882

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 x 16 cm]; viii, 392 pp, 13 fine colored lithographed (chromolithographed) plates of flowers from paintings, with tissue guards, plates on heavier paper, with hundreds of other illustrations from drawings, index. contemporary red cloth, gilt spine title lettering, very light cover wear, spine lightly faded, pencilled name on endpaper, very good overall, interior is clean & unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. 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 was bound from monthly issues, each month issued with an attractive colored plate. A vast source of information on growing flowers, vegetables, trees. This is volume V of the annual publication but has an extra colored plate, most copies have only 12 plates.