Flowers of the Field and Forest From Original Water-Color Drawings After Nature by Isaac Sprague / Reverend A.B. Hervey
Book
Bound for Beauty #14
154 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. (lithographs)
Contains fourteen full page tissue guarded color lithograph plates illustrated by Isaac Sprague. This book was issued with two additional titles in a uniform binding by the publisher: "Beautiful Ferns" and "Beautiful Wild Flowers."
2015.7.88
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
FlowersPoetry1880s
12 in
10 in
A.B. Hervey
Isaac Sprague
First
S.E. Cassino & Company
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1882
Press of Stanley and Usher
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
Publisher's Binding- Victorian
Bound in a dark green Victorian decorated cloth binding with a diagonal design to front board. Design is elaborately stamped in black, red and gilt with gilt and black lettering on the spine. Beveled edges.
Boston Stereotype Foundry
stereotyper.
Stanley & Usher
printer.
North America
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