The Herefordshire Pomona,

£6,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

'One of the finest fruit books ever issued' (Great Flower Books). The Herefordshire Pomona is a classic in the science and practice of pomology. Compiled and edited by the eminent nineteenth century horticulturalist Robert Hogg and the physician Henry Graves Bull, who moonlighted as an enthusiastic amateur naturalist, the Pomona was an outgrowth of efforts by the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club to record and showcase the different varieties of apples and pears found in the orchards of Herefordshire. For centuries, Herefordshire was known as the centre of English apple cider production, and yet, already in the mid-1800s there was growing concern among English horticulturalists and naturalists that many of the region's orchards were falling into disuse, the fruits of their trees being passed over and forgotten in favour of more popular imports from other parts of the country and world. (Cornell University Library). First edition; 2 vols, 4to; 4 uncoloured plates and 77 chromolithographed plates by Severeyns of Brussels, the majority after Edith E. Bull (daughter of the author) and Alice B. Ellis, fruit cross-section illustrations in the text, errata slip tipped-in, contemporary green half morocco. Great Flower Books, pp.59-60; Nissen BBI 29; An Oak Spring Pomona 82.

• Binding: Hardcover

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