Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.36

Description

6 volume set. 376 pages. Illustrated with twelve large floral tissue guarded chromolithographs. Volume 1, Volume 3-7. Lacking volume 2. Twelve months of the first year of publication (January 1 - December 31, 1878). Extensive advertising to rear. A highly regarded horticultural periodical prized for its 23 chromolithographic plates in each monthly issue.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Gardening, Horticulture, 1870s

Dimensions

Height

9 in

Width

6-1/4 in

Parts

a. Volume 1, 1878 b. Volume 3, 1880 c. Volume 4, 1881 d. Volume 5, 1882 e. Volume 6, 1883 f. Volume 7, 1884

Book Details

Publisher

J. Vick

Place Published

City

Rochester

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1878

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Victorian

Binding Notes

Bound in bright green decorated cloth stamped in black with gilt titles to the spine. 376pp. Blue card covers of the December issue bound in. One of 6 in this uniform binding. Others are Volumes 3,4,5,6,7 for the years 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884.

Notes

Run from 1878-1884, lacking 1879.