Flowers of the Field and Forest: From Original Water-color Drawings After Nature, by Isaac Sprague

Description

4to., Brown cloth; gilt, red, and black floral decorations on cover; black spine title; all edges gilt. 29.5×23.5×1.6 cm. Nims and Knight. Troy. 1892. Unpaginated. 10 full-page chromolithograph floral prints with tissue guards by Isaac Sprague. Good copy with very light wear to covers, owner’s ink name to ffep, light toning to margins, marginal stain to two pages not affecting plates, light offsetting and bleed-though from plates, a little rippling to endpapers, tight and bright. With poems by various authors and descriptive text by Hervey with Sprague’s bright color prints. Will be a beautiful addition to the library of anyone who appreciates botanical prints. weight: 2.3 lb.