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Vintage 1921 The Pears Of New York U P Hedrick J B Lyon Green Cloth HC Illus
Brand/Publisher: J. B. Lyon Company; Author: Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick; Title: The Pears of New York; Topic: horticulture, pomology, fruit growing.
1921 United States horticultural monograph issued as the Twenty-ninth Annual Report, Volume 2 Part II, of the State of New York Department of Agriculture and presenting a comprehensive survey of pear varieties grown in New York and surrounding regions.
Title page reads State of New York Department of Agriculture Twenty-ninth Annual Report Vol. 2 Part II The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick, assisted by G. H. Howe, O. M. Taylor, E. H. Francis, and H. B. Tukey, with the imprint Albany J. B. Lyon Company, Printers 1921 and a statement Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1921 II.
Physical format: large green cloth hardcover volume with the title The Pears of New York lettered in gilt within a ruled panel on the upper board and matching gilt titling on the spine, printed on heavy stock suitable for text and plates.
Front matter includes an engraved portrait with facsimile signature of Marshall P. Wilder and a tissue-guarded letterpress title, followed by introductory sections on pear history, classification, and cultivation practices.
Main text is arranged in alphabetical entries describing hundreds of pear and related Pyrus varieties, giving notes on origin, tree and fruit characters, synonyms, and horticultural performance, set in a clear serif typeface.
Illustrative content comprises numerous full-page color plates depicting named pear cultivars and related species, such as Colonel Wilder, Buffum, Beurre Hardy, Beurre Clairgeau, and Pyrus betulaefolia, reproduced on coated paper facing the descriptive text.
Subject and collecting interest: classic early twentieth-century American reference work on pomology and fruit culture, valued by horticultural historians, rare fruit enthusiasts, and collectors of illustrated agricultural reports.
Condition: Dark green cloth boards display overall shelf and handling wear with light surface rubbing, small scattered spots, and softened or frayed corners and spine ends. Page edges are uniformly age toned with a few small stains. Front endpapers show creases, handling marks, and pencil annotations, and the title page bears an ink inscription for Heermance Memorial Library, Coxsackie N.Y. Interior pages are age toned with scattered small spots on some margins, while the color plates remain bright on the examined leaves. Binding is solid and pages sit square in the case; dust jacket not present.
