01568cam a2200277 a 4500 agr26000850 DLC 20260227110945.0 891025s1769 enkaf 000 0 eng c agr26000850 DNAL DLC DLC SB375 .T39 1769 634/.774 20 Taylor, Adam, active 18th century. 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 : Printed by T. Burrough for the author and sold by Messrs. Robinson and Roberts [and 15 others], ; London : [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) The pineapple plate is hand-colored. Signatures: a⁴ B-E⁸. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 456 LC copy wanting the pine-frame plate. DLC Source: Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939. DLC Pineapple. Melons. Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) DLC 9021 9021