Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits and Their Peculiarities / Harriet L. Keeler
Book
533 pages. Illustrations (178 from photographs and 162 from drawings).
Contents: Genera and Species -- Illustrations -- Guide to the Trees -- Descriptions of the Trees: Dicotyledones -- Descriptions of the Trees: Gymnospermae -- Form and Structure of Roots, Stems, Leaves, Flowers, Fruit -- The Tree Stem or Trunk -- Species and Genus -- Index of Latin Names -- Index of Common Names.
2015.7.250
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Trees1900s
8 in
Harriet L. Keeler
Fifth
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York
New York
United States
North America
1900
1907
Publisher's Binding
Bound in tan cloth with stunning forest design of trees stamped in grey, pale lavender and black: the trees negatively stamped in black outline, the foliage and land stamped in grey, and the sky stamped a pale lavender. Gilt titles outlined in black to spine and cover. Printed on heavy coated stock.
North America
Note variant binding of 1927 printing with sky stamped in pink. (2015.7.249)