The nurseryman's pocket specimen book
Subtitle: colored from nature : fruits, flowers, ornamental trees, shrubs, roses, &c
Contributors: Mason, S.F.
Publisher: D.M. Dewey
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Botany; Fruit; Pictorial works; Trees; Flowers
Notes: Contains 85 leaves of illustrated plates depicting various botanical specimens, the majority of which are fruits (apples, pears, stone fruits, berries, etc.), though a small number of flowers are also present, as are several trees. The first 80 plates are embellished via stencilled watercolors. The final 5 plates, which all show tree specimens, are chromolithographic.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound into a brown leather pocketbook, both folding hinges of which have been rebacked in matching leather. The name S.F. Mason is stamped in gilt onto the upper hinge just above the single brass clasp.