Country Life

Boston: John P Jewett and Company, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 813p thick octavo, complete with double page color frontis.(color-tinted lithograph), 8 plates and additional in-text illustrations. A good copy bound in brown cloth. Wearing at the crown and base and along the extremities, foxed, very faint moisture stain along the top edge not affecting the text..Library… Read more about this item

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1859. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Thick octavo. x, 813pp., double-page frontispiece plate (color-tinted lithograph), wood engraved vignettes, in-text illustrations, and plates. Publisher's brown ribbon-embossed cloth, gilt spine title. Front hinge is loose, an about very good copy with some slight mottling to the boards. Neat ownership signature of journalist, author and… Read more about this item

Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett and Company and Henry P.B. Jewett, 1859. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Tall thick octavo. 813pp. Hand-colored folding frontispiece plus many black-and-white illustrations. Contemporary owner's signature on title-page and verso of frontispiece and some light foxing to plates and tissue guards, a nice, very near fine copy.

Boston: Jewett. Good+. 1860. Hardcover. Cloth worn thru in 2 places, old library bookplate. ; 8vo; x, 814p. , double page plan, plates, index. .

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Henry P. B. Jewett, 1859. 8vo, pp. x, 813, [1]; double-page tinted lithograph frontispiece, vignette title page, 8 wood-engraved plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; ex-Sturgis Library, Barnstable, Mass. (released) with their bookplate, small rubberstamps and neat accession number on spine, small crack in the… Read more about this item

Boston: John P. Jewett, 1859. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; very minor foxing and spotting; a near fine copy. Well-illustrated; the frontispiece is a two page color lithograph suggesting a plan for 60 acres.

COPELAND, R. Morris. COUNTRY LIFE: A HANDBOOK OF AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE A LANDSCAPE-GARDENING. Boston: Jewett, 1859. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Double frontispiece, x, 813 pages, 7 plates. First edition. One of the most well-read American landscape gardening books of it's time. Copeland was part of the very talented generation that included F.L. Olmsted, H.W.S. Cleveland and Charles Eliot. Very good. … Read more about this item

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company. Very Good. 1859. Hardcover. Folding frontis (colored) and 8 plates. 813pp., front hinge is cracked, loosening, brown cloth boards are scuffed and stained, spine ends and edges rubbed, contents are bright and complete, Very Good. .

John P. Jewett and Company, 1859. Hardcover. Good. . Has been professionally rebound in brown cloth, original backstrip preserved on spine. Minor shelf wear. Textblock VG, minor tanning at top right edge. Pages clean, binding tight.