Accession number
PML 89007
Creator
Hervey, A. B. (Alpheus Baker), 1839-1931.
Published
Boston : Estes and Lauriat, 301 Washington Street, ©1881.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"The plates for this volume, are engraved, from photographs, of specimens in my herbarium. In outline and color, therefore, they represent real plants"--preface, p. xi.
Plate xviii is the frontispiece, and plate ix is placed before plate i, facing p. 34. All plates are unsigned.
"Copyright, 1881, by S.E. Cassino"--verso of t.p.
Half title.
Plate xviii is the frontispiece, and plate ix is placed before plate i, facing p. 34. All plates are unsigned.
"Copyright, 1881, by S.E. Cassino"--verso of t.p.
Half title.
Description
[4], xv, [7], 281, [14], [5] p., [20] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 20 x 13 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial olive green diagonal rib-grain cloth, blocked in gold, black, and blind, with brown endpapers.
Classification
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