Vick's Monthly Magazine
de VICK, James;
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Rochester, NY, published by James Vick, 1887, First edition. . original green pictorial decorated publisher's cloth, gilt spine title lettering, light cover wear, light foxing on few leaves, old repair of internal hinge, very good overall, interior is clean, plate of an orchid, others floral. . 8vo [23.5 x 16.5 cm]; viii, 384 pp, 12 fine colored lithographed (chromolithographed) plates from paintings, some tears in tissue guards, plates on heavier paper, with hundreds of other illustrations from drawings, index, portrait plate. . 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, 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 volume X of the annual publication. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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- Título
- Vick's Monthly Magazine
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- VICK, James;
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- Original green pictorial decorated publisher's cloth, gilt spine title lettering, light cover wear, light foxing on few leav
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- Rochester, NY, published by James Vick, 1887, First edition.
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- 8vo [23.5 x 16.5 cm]; viii, 384
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- Gardening - General;
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