Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Book
6 volume set.
376 pages. Illustrated with twelve large floral tissue guarded chromolithographs.
Volume 1, Volume 3-7. Lacking volume 2.
Twelve months of the first year of publication (January 1 - December 31, 1878). Extensive advertising to rear.
A highly regarded horticultural periodical prized for its 23 chromolithographic plates in each monthly issue.
2015.7.36
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
GardeningHorticulture1870s
9 in
6-1/4 in
a. Volume 1, 1878 b. Volume 3, 1880 c. Volume 4, 1881 d. Volume 5, 1882 e. Volume 6, 1883 f. Volume 7, 1884
Rochester
New York
United States
North America
1878
Publisher's Binding- Victorian
Bound in bright green decorated cloth stamped in black with gilt titles to the spine. 376pp. Blue card covers of the December issue bound in. One of 6 in this uniform binding. Others are Volumes 3,4,5,6,7 for the years 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884.
Run from 1878-1884, lacking 1879.