Publisher:
Chicago, The Caxton Club: 1968
First, Limited edition (limited to 500 copies). Bound full blue slate G. S .B. Fabric's S-522 cloth, blue-stamped on the spine, black lettering and red decoration on white label on cover, printed endpapers. Edited, and with an Introduction by Howard H. Peckham. John Adlum (1759-1836) was a pioneering American viticulturalist who was the first to cultivate the Catawba grape. He is known as "the father of American viticulture." He also served in the American Revolutionary War; was a well-known surveyor; was one of the first associate judges in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; and served in the ...
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