Flowers of the Field and Forest From Original Water-Color Drawings After Nature by Isaac Sprague / Reverend A.B. Hervey
Entry/Object ID
2015.7.88
Description
Bound for Beauty #14
154 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. (lithographs)
Contains fourteen full page tissue guarded color lithograph plates illustrated by Isaac Sprague. This book was issued with two additional titles in a uniform binding by the publisher: "Beautiful Ferns" and "Beautiful Wild Flowers."
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
Flowers, Poetry, 1880s
Dimensions
Height
12 in
Width
10 in
Book Details
Author
A.B. Hervey
Illustrator
Isaac Sprague
Edition
First
Publisher
S.E. Cassino & Company
Place Published
City
Boston
State/Province
Massachusetts
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Date Published
1882
Printer
Press of Stanley and Usher
Place Printed
City
Boston
State/Province
Massachusetts
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Victorian
Binding Notes
Bound in a dark green Victorian decorated cloth binding with a diagonal design to front board. Design is elaborately stamped in black, red and gilt with gilt and black lettering on the spine. Beveled edges.
Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Boston Stereotype Foundry
Notes
stereotyper.
Person or Organization
Stanley & Usher
Notes
printer.
Related Places
Place
Continent
North America
Exhibition
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection
