Wright, John. The Fruit Grower’s Guide. 1st. Ed. Pub. Virtue and Company nd c.1891
Three volumes bound in six. With 43 fine colour chromolithograph plates, 3 colour illus. title-pages, 6 standard title-pages, many illustrative line drawings and diagrams. 4to. Hardbacks. AEG. Spotting to fore-edges of text blocks. Spotting internally is largely confined to blank margins, occ. a little heavier, o/w. contents fine. Bound in very attractive publisher’s decorative green buckram with gilt titles to spine in vg. to vg. plus condition.
Wright’s work is very detailed and still very relevant today. Sets have become harder to come by because the fine colour plates are often extracted and sold individually.
£295.00 [Ref: 71496]