The Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America ... Second Revision and Correction with large Additions by DOWNING, Andrew Jackson (1815-1852) and Charles (1802-1885) - 1872

New York: John Wiley, 1872. 2 volumes, 8vo. xx, 464, [2], 42; vii, [2], 433-1071, [1], [2], 19, [1]pp. Illustrations. Contemporary half green morocco and marbled paper covered boards, spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, marbled endpapers Expanded edition of "the standard American pomological authority" (Hedrick). A.J. Downing and his brother, Charles, revolutionized both American landscape gardening and American fruit growing in the 1840s, the latter with the first publication of this book in 1845. After A.J. Downing's death, the book went through some twenty editions in the 19th century under Charles' editorship. The first volume of this much expanded edition is devoted to apples; the second to cherries, grapes, peaches and pears. Hedrick, p.486; Oak Spring Pomona 60.