Vick's Monthly Magazine

8vo [23.5 x 16.5 cm]; viii, 376 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. 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 (entitled Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine on the cover) was bound from monthly issues, each month issued with an attractive colored plate, although one issue in this year had two colored plates, 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 the first volume of the annual publication.