WILD FLOWERS DRAWN AND COLORED FROM NATURE.
Clarissa Munger Badger
Artist's BiographyWild Flowers drawn and colored from nature.
Lithography, typeset 1859
Quarto, 14 1/8 x 11 3/8” (36 x 28.9 cm)
Overall in good condition. Some occasional foxing Some tissue guards have creases. LOCATION: New York City
Inventory Number: 100211
Price: $1,000.00 Publisher : Published by New York and London: Charles Scribner; Sampson Low, Son & Co. Who does not love a flower?
Publisher’s brown morocco, covers gilt- and blind-stamped. Spine replaced. 43 pages. 22 plates, in color.
With an introduction by Mrs. L. H. Sigourney.
The plates are: Dogwood, Wild Geranium, Ground Pink, Trailing Arbutus, Hoodleaved Violet, Wild Columbine, Spring Beauty, Wild Honeysuckle, Apple Blossom, Yellow Lily, Harebell, Sweet-Brier, Tulip-Tree, Mountain Laurel, Wild Rose, Daisy, Buttercup, Red Clover, American Rose Bay, Butterfly Weed, Wood Lily, Purple Fringed Orchis, Cardinal Flower, Red Maple, Fringed Gentian.
18th-19th Century Subjects , Natural History - Botanicals