Taylor, Adam,  active 18th century. <br/><br/>
A treatise on the Ananas or pine-apple :  containing plain and easy directions for raising this most excellent fruit without fire, and in much higher perfection than from the stove : illustrated with an elegant copper plate in which is exhibited the new invented pine-frame &c., peculiarly adapted for that use, with another shewing the fruit colour'd from nature : to which are added full directions for raising melons / 
by Adam Taylor. 
 - Devizes :  London :  Printed by T. Burrough for the author and sold by Messrs. Robinson and Roberts [and 15 others], ;  [and elsewhere],  1769. 
 - [2], vi, 62, [2] p. (the last leaf blank), [2] folded leaves of plates :  2 ill. (1 col.) (engravings) ;  20 cm. (8vo) 
<br/><br/> The pineapple plate is hand-colored.  Signatures: a⁴ B-E⁸.  LC copy wanting the pine-frame plate.  Source: Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939. 
<br/><br/> Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib.,  p. 456 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>agr26000850  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pineapple.<br/>Melons.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>SB375  / .T39 1769 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>634/.774