'AND SOME BROUGHT FLOWERS': PLANTS IN A NEW WORLD

by Downie, Mary Allice, Hamilton, Mary, selected and introduced by. Illustrations by E.J. Revell

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Book Description

University of Toronto Press, Toronto, (1980).. 164 pp, large 8vo (10 1/4"), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0802023630 70 watercolors by E.J. Revell. "In seventy exquisite watercolours E.J. Revell has captured the beauty of plants found by early travellers in North America - from Ash to Winte. rgreen, Bittersweet to Wappatoo, the common Bedstraw and the uncommon Camass, the edible Fiddlehead and the ubiquitous Dandelion. Accompanying each painting are quotations from a variety of explorers and settlers, describing the plants and refle. c t i ng the practical, aesthetic, and botanic interests of newcomers in different parts of the country...The result is an intriguing mixture of native knowledge and frontier wisdom which provides a picture of life in a new land..." Dust jacket has. s om e darkening to panels and edges, minor edge wrinkling. NF/VG+.

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