Thomas Andrew Knight | Pomona Herefordiensis, 1811

Thomas Andrew Knight

Pomona Herefordiensis: containing coloured engravings of the old cider and perry fruits of Herefordshire. London: for the Agricultural Society of Herefordshire, 1811

FIRST EDITION, 4to (305 x 235mm.), 30 hand-coloured stipple and aquatint plates, original boards, rebacked with red morocco

An attractive work by the president of the Royal Horticultural Society, T.E. Knight. He is known for his important research on fruit trees and their diseases. The plates were engraved by William Hooker, and drawn mainly by Elizabeth Matthews.

Knight notes in the preface, "The remaining three (plates), the Stead's Kernal, the Old Permain, and the Friar, were the work of a very young and inferior artist of my own family; but those were finished under my own eye, and were most perfectly correct; and whatever may have been defective in the drawings, has not been transferred by Mr Hooker to the plates."

LITERATURE:

Dunthorne 168; Nissen BBI 1072

PROVENANCE:

A letter from J.P. Wechby to Montague Walken regarding the pricing of the book is loosely inserted.