Wild Flowers of America: Botanical Fine Art Weekly
- Hardcover
- New York: G. H. Buek & Co, 1894
New York: G. H. Buek & Co, 1894. Bound book edition (individual issues were published weekly). Periodical covers are not bound in, and this is unpaginated. Hardcover. Good +. Oblong quarto [22 cm x 31 cm] Burgundy cloth over boards with decorative lettering and floral designs on the front cover. All edges gilt. Presentation slip neatly mounted to the front free endpaper. The extremities are lightly rubbed, and there is a 1/2" split in the cloth along the front hinge at the foot of the spine. The underlying boards are peeking through at the bottom fore-edge corners of the covers. The rear endpaper is split along the hinge. Flowers by Every State in the American Union by a Corps of Special Artists and Botanists Approved by the Leading Artists of America and Europe and Endorsed by University Botanists of Both Continents.
A charming book about wild flowers containing 288 color illustrations of flowers with corresponding explanatory text.
From the Introduction-
"It is to familiarize Americans with their incomparable wild flowers in detailed form and color, that this work was designed. Ever since its first pages were commenced, the publishers have been earnestly urged by leading botanists to resist all temptation to make fanciful pictures, as is so generally done in commemorative cards. Great stress was laid on the advisability of giving each flower just as it grows, just as it looks in nature. Only by this method could it have its highest educational value.
A charming book about wild flowers containing 288 color illustrations of flowers with corresponding explanatory text.
From the Introduction-
"It is to familiarize Americans with their incomparable wild flowers in detailed form and color, that this work was designed. Ever since its first pages were commenced, the publishers have been earnestly urged by leading botanists to resist all temptation to make fanciful pictures, as is so generally done in commemorative cards. Great stress was laid on the advisability of giving each flower just as it grows, just as it looks in nature. Only by this method could it have its highest educational value.