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Item Details
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THE OAK SPRING GARDEN LIBRARY
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| By: |
Sandra Raphael |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£65.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300049366 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300049367 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 December, 1990 |
| Series: |
Oak Spring Garden Library Series v. 2 |
| Pages: |
314 |
| Description: |
This catalogue of rare books and other publications about fruit ranges from a 1592 work to an encyclopaedia on apples in the 1870s. There are detailed sections on different fruits and geographical areas, allied to background material placing the books in their historical setting. |
| Synopsis: |
An Oak Spring Pomona is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The Pomona describes one hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject as well as from original drawings and paintings. The earliest book described is Bussatos Giardino di Agricoltura of 1592, the latest The Herefordshire Pomona, an encyclopedia of apples and pears from the 1870s. In between there are fruit books large and small: La Quintinie's Instruction pour les Jardins fruitiers, Duhamel's Traite des arbres fruitiers, and many others. The book is divided into sections on fruit-growing in France and Britain, fruit elsewhere in Europe, and fruit in America, as well as citrus fruit, apples and pears, peaches and soft fruit, grapes, melons, and tropical fruit. Each description gives the background of the book and its relationship to others and is accompanied by illustrations of its contents in color and black and white.The Pomona includes not only brief bibliographical summaries of each book but also background wssays that place the books in a historical setting. |
| Illustrations: |
100 b-w + 70 color illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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