The Herefordshire Pomona

Issued in parts from 1878 to 1885, this pomological catalogue describes the apples and pears grown in Herefordshire, a county then famous for cider orchards. Henry Graves Bull, working with Robert Hogg and the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, records each variety's shape, colour, season, flavour, and use at table or in the press, with notes on names that were already slipping from markets. Colour plates show fruit, blossom, and some blights. The work is a systematic descriptive survey meant to preserve local kinds, not a cookbook and not a picture album without text.

Quarter bound in green Indian goatskin with gold blocked fruit on canvas sides, gilded top page edge, ribbon marker. Text volume, essays by Michael Twyman and Jim Arbury, integrated line drawings, ribbon marker, bound in green canvas with gold blocked pear picture. Four loose colour plates enclosed. All contained in green cloth bound solander box blocked in gold.