HOOKER, William. ~ Pomona Londinensis: containing colored engravings of the most esteemed fruits cultivated in the British gardens, with a descriptive account of each variety...Sanctioned by the Horticultural Society of London.
Volume I, all published. First edition. 49 colour plates of fruits including varieties of grapes, apples, peaches, nectarines, plums,apricots, pears, cherries, currants, berries and one of the cob nut, all aquatints printed in colour and finished by hand. 4to., contemporary marbled boards, with later half calf, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, some browning to title and dedication, occasional light browning.
Inscribed in pencil on the title “H A D H from her affectionate mother L M D H”, booklabel of Hopton Hall Library dated 1911.
William Hooker (1779-1832) was a botanical artist who was employed by the Horticultural Society of London, to which this is dedicated. He drew, engraved and coloured the plates himself and Dunthorne describes these very fine aquatints with hand finishing as ‘among the best of all fruit prints”.