This work is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs Paul Mellon. The "Pomona" describes 100 books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject as well as from original drawings and paintings. The earliest book described is Bussato's "Guardian di Agricoltura" of 1592, the latest "The Hereforshire Pomona" an encyclopedia of apples and pears from the 1870s. In between there are fruit books large and small - La Quintinie's "Instruction pour les Jardins fruitiers", Duhamel's "Traite des Arbres fruitiers", and many others. The book is divided into sections on fruit growing in France and Britain, fruit elsewhere in Europe, and fruit in America, as well as citrus fruit, apples and pears, peaches and soft fruit, grapes, melons, and tropical fruit. Each description gives the background of the book and its relationship to others and is accompanied by illustrations of its contents in color and black and white. The "Pomona" includes not only brief bibliographical summaries of each book but also background essays that place the books in an historical setting.
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Oak Spring Garden Library comprises Rachel Lambert Mellon's celebrated collection of rare books, manuscripts, works of art, and related artifacts concerning gardens, gardening, landscape design, horticulture, and botany. Conserved at Upperville, Virginia, in a striking library designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes in consultation with Rachel Mellon, the collection is both a unique historical archive and a day-to-day working resource. Among Rachel Mellon's own contributions to the art of garden design are the Rose Garden and Jacqueline Kennedy Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C. Her honors include the Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Royal Horticultural Society's Veitch Gold Medal, and the American Horticultural Society Landscape Design Award, and recently she has been recognized for her assistance during the restoration of the Potager du Roi at Versailles.
The cloth-bound catalogues that describe the holdings of the Oak Spring Garden Library are printed on acid-free paper and are designed, printed, and bound to the highest standards. Each volume is richly illustrated with duotone and color images.
An Oak Spring Sylva: A Selection of the Rare Books on Trees (1989)
An Oak Spring Pomona: A Selection of the Rare Books on Fruit (1990)
An Oak Spring Flora: Flower Illustration from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time (1997)
An Oak Spring Hortus: Garden Design in the West since the Renaissance (forthcoming)
An Oak Spring Flora Mundi: Regional Floras and Travels (forthcoming)
An Oak Spring Herbaria: Herbs and Herbals in Western Culture (forthcoming)
About the Author
Sandra Raphael is a writer and editor who has been studying the bibliography and history of natural history for many years. Her earlier work includes The Illustrated Herbal (a collaboration with Wilfrid Blunt, published in 1979) and articles on botanical illustration, herbals, plant collecting, nurserymen, and other subjects in The Oxford Companion to Gardens (1986). From 1969 to 1983 she was also a senior editor on the staff of A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary (1972-86), dealing with natural history and bibliographical research. She still lives in Oxford, where she cultivates a small, extremely informal garden furnished with interesting plants from other people's domains, acquired in constant exchanges with gardeners who share her taste.
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