Author: ABERCROMBIE (John):
Title: The Hot-House Gardener or the General Culture of the Pine-Apple, the Early Grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, and Other Choice Fruits, in Hot-Houses, Vineries, Fruit-Houses, Hot-Walles, &c. With Directions for Raising Melons and early Strawberries. Illustrated with Five Copper Plates, Representing the Pine-Apple, Grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, Cherries, Melon, and Strawberies, - Coloured from Nature.
Description: London: Printed for John Stockdale..., 1789. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, 248 x 15 3 mms., pp. xvi, 238 [239 - 240 adverts], 5 engraved plates (four printed in sepia, with the melon plate in black and white), entirely uncut; 2 plates detached from inner margin, all before title-page removed, with front hinge repaired with tape, gutter occasionally visible, contemporary boards (a bit soiled), spine repaired and slight worn, but a reasonably good copyl From the Garden Trust blog: "John Abercrombie was one of the 18th century's most prolific gardening writers, although he was initially shy of his talents and didn't really start writing until he was 50 and even then under someone else's name. But from there he went from strength to strength publishing a string of books, all based on his lifelong experience as a practical hands-on gardener. From our point of view its sad they are all virtually unillustrated but they continued to be popular, running into dozens of editions and in print for decades after his death. At the age of 72 he was shown in gentlemanly dress holding a large spade in the new engraved frontispiece for the 16th edition of his most famous book Every Man His Own Gardener first published in 1767." Bitting pp.1-2; Fussell II, pp.138-143; Henrey 402; Hunt 700. https://thegardenstrust.blog/2016/12/03/john-abercrombie/

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