The Book of Flowers: Four Centuries of Flower Illustration
by COATS, ALICE M
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- Hardcover
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Piermont, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1973), 1973. First American edition. Folio.; 208 pp.; illustrated, including forty color plates; biblioiography. Spot of soiling to front cover, else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth, in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Selections from the herbals, floralegiums, floras and horticultural monographs of the period from 1485 to 1850. Many of the selections never reproduced before. A very useful guide and reference..
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- Bookseller
- Trevian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001191
- Title
- The Book of Flowers: Four Centuries of Flower Illustration
- Author
- COATS, ALICE M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1973)
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION HERBAL ART GARDENING AND HORTICULTURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening and Horticulture; Art;
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Trevian Books
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