1878 · New York
by Hoe, Richard M.
New York: Rogers & Sherwood, printers, 1878. New edition (see p. 20), 12mo, pp. 96; pig vignette on title page repeating that on the front wrapper; 4 wood engravings of pigs; original pictorial wrappers; occasional colored pencil marks and annotations; 1880 ownership inscription; fine. The rather extensive text is written in the first person singular and is almost certainly by Hoe himself. A bibliophile and collector, Richard M. Hoe followed his father into the Hoe Company which, under his guidance, invented the modern newspaper press. Upon his death, the great bibliophile and one of the Grolier Club's founders, Robert Hoe, Richard's nephew, succeeded him. Hoe died on a trip to Italy in June 1886. This extensive swine breeding catalogue was based on the herd at Hoe's 53-acre estate, Brightside, where he lived with his wife, Mary, and children, in the Morrisania / Hunt's Point section of the Bronx. Not in NUC; this edition not in OCLC, although a similar catalogue is, printed a year earlier with only 71 pages (1 holding only at N.Y. State Library).
(Inventory #: 54291)