The Vegetable Cultivator
ROGERS, John, [[John, ABERCROMBIE], ]
BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH; CUSTOM-MADE SLIP-CASE
Published: Longman Orme Brown Green & Longmans, 1839
Stock code: 45178
Price: £320.00
8vo., First Edition, gatherings U onwards creased but entirely sound; original dark green cloth, boards blocked in blind, gilt back, primrose endpapers, backstrip faded (but all gilt wholly legible), corbners bruised else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, fresh copy now preserved for the future in custom-made slip-case.
With 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated April 1839) bound in at end. Formerly with the Royal Gardens, the author details almost one hundred vegetables and herbs, together with their history, culture, and varieties available. Philip Miller was formerly gardener to the Company of Apothecaries at the Botanical Gardens in Chelsea. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Cagle 969 (catalogue dated July 1839); Massachusetts Horticultural Society p. 269; Wheaton & Kelly 5204.