An Oak Spring Pomona: A Selection of the Rare Books on Fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library

by Sandra Raphael

$45 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, patterned endpapers. A beautifully produced catalogue showing the history of fruit culture. This work is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library. Pomona describes about 100 books and manuscripts about fruits and includes beautiful illustrations taken from the works themselves. The list of chapters is as follows: Fruit in France and Britain; Fruit

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