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.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Devizes : Printed by T. Burrough for the author and sold by Messrs. Robinson and Roberts [and 15 others], ; London : [and elsewhere], 1769.Description: [2], vi, 62, [2] p. (the last leaf blank), [2] folded leaves of plates : 2 ill. (1 col.) (engravings) ; 20 cm. (8vo)Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 634/.774 20
LOC classification:
  • SB375 .T39 1769
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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

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