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Meehan, Thomas

Wayside Flowers

1881

151,34 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1881
Lieu d'édition
Philadelphia. Chas. Robson & Co.
Auteur
Meehan, Thomas
Edition
First edition.
Thème
Nature - Botany Americana
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

large 8vo [27 x 19.5 cm]; 128 pp, 31 fine colored lithographed plates (chromolithographs) by L. Prang. original pictorial gilt cloth, with gilt picture of flowers on cover, gilt spine title lettering, all edges gilted, edges lightly rubbed, small light cover stain, few margins with light stain, endpaper inscription, very good clean copy. A picture of this The author of the celebrated Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States, a four volume work with 192 colored plates and selling for about $2000, here presents a selection of plates from the larger work, each with a full description. Plates include two of orchids and one of water lilies. Prang was the foremost printer of chromolithographed plates in the United States. See Bennett p. 75.