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Pomology. Langford (Thomas), Plain and Full Instructions To raise all sorts of Fruit-Trees That prosper in England [...], Together with an Addition of two intire (sic) Chapters of Greens and Green-houses, second edition, London: Printed by Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1696, black-ruled title-page, with the one-leaf letter to the publisher from John Evelyn praising the work, collating: [xxx], 180, [185]-220, [6] (publisher's adverts), 2 engraved plates as called, the first with explanatory letterpress leaf, some later 19th c annotations and marginalia, a respectable reading copy, some soiled grime, stains and wear in places, contemporary sheep, worn but holding, lacking endpapers, 8vo, [Wing L389; Henrey 216]
Provenance: 1) R Copley ; contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription. 2) Early 18th c Jacobean armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.
Lacking two leaves, i.e. pages 181-84.
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