HOOPER'S WESTERN FRUIT BOOK: A Compendius Collection of Facts, from the Notes and Experience of Successful Fruit Culturists, arranged for Practical Use in the Orchard and Garden
Cincinnati [OH]: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 25 West Fourth Street, 1857. 20 cm. (4 l.), ii, frontispiece, 333pp, (3 pp.) ads, 4 chromolithographic plates by Middleton, Wallace & Co., Lith., Cincinnati. Embossed green cloth faded with worn spine ends. The first four leave are plans by John C. Schooley of Cincinnati for a summer fruit house, printed on rectos only. Splendid frontispiece, also done by Middleton, Wallace & Co., of eleven named men around a table of fruit, including the strawberry-king, Nicholas Longworth, John P. Foote, A. H. Ernst, F. Pentland, S. S. Jackson, J. Sayer and Dr. J.A. Warder, E.J. Hooper (the author), Gabriel Sleath, Geo. Graham, and R. Buchanan. Item #66372
Price: $350.00