Title An Oak Spring Pomona : a selection of the rare books on fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library / described by Sandra Raphael

Published Upperville, Va. : Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990 New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 276 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Oak Spring Garden Library ; 2 Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- DESCRIPTIVE METHOD -- FRUIT IN FRANCE AND BRITAIN -- FRUIT IN FRANCE AND BRITAIN -- FRUIT IN FRANCE AND BRITAIN -- FRUIT ELSEWHERE IN EUROPE -- FRUIT IN AMERICA -- CITRUS FRUIT -- APPLES AND PEARS -- PEACHES AND SOFT FRUIT -- GRAPES -- MELONS -- TROPICAL FRUIT -- INDEX Summary An Oak Spring Pomona is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The Pomona describes one hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject as well as from original drawings and paintings. The earliest book described is Bussatos Giardino di Agricoltura of 1592, the latest The Herefordshire Pomona, an encyclopedia of apples and pears from the 1870s. In between there are fruit books large and small: La Quintinie's Instruction pour les Jardins fruitiers, Duhamel's Traite des arbres fruitiers, and many others. The book is divided into sections on fruit-growing in France and Britain, fruit elsewhere in Europe, and fruit in America, as well as citrus fruit, apples and pears, peaches and soft fruit, grapes, melons, and tropical fruit. Each description gives the background of the book and its relationship to others and is accompanied by illustrations of its contents in color and black and white. The Pomona includes not only brief bibliographical summaries of each book but also background wssays that place the books in a historical setting Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Oak Spring Garden Library -- Catalogs SUBJECT Oak Spring Garden Library. fast (OCoLC)fst00655103 Subject Fruit-culture -- Bibliography -- Catalogs Fruit -- Bibliography -- Catalogs Rare books -- Virginia -- Upperville -- Bibliography -- Catalogs Fruit. Rare books. Fruit Rare Books fruit. REFERENCE -- Bibliographies & Indexes. Libros raros -- Oak Spring Garden Library -- Catálogos Botánica -- Bibliografías Fruit. Fruit-culture. Rare books. Virginia -- Upperville. Genre/Form catalogs (documents) Bibliographies. Catalogs. Catalogs. Library catalogues. Catalogues. Form Electronic book Author Raphael, Sandra ISBN 9780300242546 0300242549

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