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Thomas Bridgeman

(Born: ???? - Died: 1850)

Florist and author. He was born in Berkshire England, and emigrated to the United States in 1824, where he opened a seed store. He was the author of the following books:
    The Young Gardener's Assistant (1832)
    Florist's Guide (1835)
    The Kitchen Gardener's Instructor (1836)
    Report Of The Committee On Horticulture (1844)
    The Fruit Cultivator's Manual (1844)
    The American Gardener's Assistant (1867) (completed by his son??)

Criticism (Texts and Variant Texts)

Notice of The Young Gardener's Assistant (7th edition) (March 18, 1840, text "A" — Alexander's Weekly Messenger) (A brief notice)

Bibliography:

Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.

Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)

Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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