[SALESMAN'S CATALOGUE]. DEWEY, D.M. The Nurserymen's Pocket Specimen Book, Colored from Nature, Fruits, Flowers, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, &c. A specimen book for John Dixon, Dixon Nurseries, Geneva, NY. Rochester, NY: Keeler & Winfield, 1876.

Oblong 8vo (215 x 140 mm). 74 chromolithographed and stencil-colored plates. (Some browning, soiling, or offsetting.) Contemporary morocco gilt (rebacked to style and repaired, previous name removed from upper cover).

Agricultural trade catalogue with an extensive collection of plates, comprising: 42 fruit plates including apples, peaches, grapes, strawberries, and other berries; 13 flower plates, including roses, rhododendron, and althea; 7 flowering tree plates, including honeysuckle, clematis, and magnolia; 11 tree or bush plates, including mountain ash, horse chestnut, weeping willow, weeping birch, beech, and arbor vitae; also with one landscape plate.

Dewey was the most successful of the nineteenth-century nurserymen from the Flower City. The plates his firm produced "were simple watercolours, but later, as demand grew, the technique of theorem paintings coloured with the help of stencils was used to multiply the number of copies as quickly and as cheaply as possible" (Oak Spring Pomona 64).

Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum

[SALESMAN'S CATALOGUE]. DEWEY, D.M. The Nurserymen's Pocket Specimen Book, Colored from Nature, Fruits, Flowers, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, &c. A specimen book for John Dixon, Dixon Nurseries, Geneva, NY. Rochester, NY: Keeler & Winfield, 1876.