Hardcover. Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Foxing to top edge of dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, J. Davis, 1st, 1791, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 22 (of 24) hand-colored plates proceeded by 22 pages of description. Bound in marbled boards with a linen spine and spine label. Missing plates 13 and 19. The flowering plant illustrations, executed by James Sowerby, are all bright and clean. Original blue-gray wrappers bound-in. First issued in 1792 (despite title page date of 1791, preface is dated May 1792). Previous owner's note (tipped onto front fly leaf and dated 1936) states this copy came from the Czar's Hermitage Library. No way to confirm this as there is no label or Double Eagle stamp.
Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Price clipping to dust jacket.
Softcover. Bibliotheque de l'Image, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, features 46 large color plates of vegetables rendered in watercolor and printed on one side of pages. Limited text in French. Small tear to paper at bottom of spine. Great graphic reference. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. 332 pages. This edition features a color frontispiece, full-page plates in both color and black & white, and in-text illustrations throughout by William Walworth Stilson. A reprint of the 1901 edition. No date, probably the 1930s. Owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 2nd, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, revised and enlarged with 152 b/w illustrations. Cover boards bound in deep red cloth. Gilt title on spine. Original owner's dated (Sept. 10, 1912) signature on front endpaper. flyleaf and back endpaper. In very good condition for its age. Half title page partially separated from gutter, but still attached. Binding still quite tight. Illustrations incredibly detailed. Pages slightly age-yellowed. A little bit of age-wearing to cover boards, but overall in great shape.
