The Colored Fruit Book: For use of Nurseymen

by Dewey, D.M

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Book Description

Rochestor: D.M. D Ewey, 1860 4to. 64 colored plates of apples, pears, grapes, berries, flowers and more, including pochoirs, color lithographs and other examples. Many pages restored. Some foxing and staining to plates. Bound in contemporary ½ morocco with a morocco label on the front cover titled Dewey's Colored Fruits and Flowers with the name of the salesman below, rebacked with original backstrip, stained; foxing, staining and soiling to the plates, the title and first plate paper-backed. A sample catalogue for use by traveling salesman assembled from stock plates including examples by Dewey, but also plates lithographed for him by Kellogg. "The earliest plates were simple, watercolours, but later, as demand grew, the technique of theorem paintings coloured with the help of stencils was used to multiply the number of copies as quickly as possible"-Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona 64 (for a similar but later specimen book by Dewey with a variant title and few plates). See also Reese, Stamped with a National Character 70 for a similar catalogue produced by D.W. Sargent. .

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