Publisher:
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth for the Author, 1854.:
Large folio. 610 x 525 mm. pp. 16 [1]; 6 plates. Original printed cloth backed thin printed boards. The boards are worn and creased with some old damp staining. The plates are generally clean with the guards lightly browned. Old worm holes to the earliest pages including the first three plates, with a tiny hole in the fourth plate, these now professionally repaired, but not touched up. An extraordinary book, worthy of this giant Amazonian water-lily. The plates are the work of William Sharp who pioneered chromolithography when it first appeared in England around 1835, before emigrating to Amer...
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