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
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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