Flower and fruit prints of the 18th and early 19th centuries
Subtitle: their history, makers and uses, with a Catalogue raisonné of the works in which they are found
By: by Gordon Dunthorne.
Contributors: Atkinson, Julia Yerkes. Book-plate.
Publisher: The author
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Engraving; Engraving -- History; Flowers in art; Flowers -- Pictorial works; Fruit -- Pictorial works; Engraving -- Bibliography
Genres: Pictorial works.; Bibliography.
Notes: Title-page and half-title illustrated in colors.
"Designed and printed at the Lakeside press, Chicago, U.S. A., in an edition of twenty-five hundred copies of which seven hundred and fifty copies contain a special colour plate listing subscribers' names."
"Catalogue raisonné of the works of the 18th and early 19th centuries in which flower and fruit prints are to be found, with complete descriptions of the characteristics of each print, artist, engraver, publisher and other details necessary for their identification": p. 169-261; "Chronological list of the works in which prints of camellias are found": p. [263]
This copy contains the special folding colored plate listing subscribers' names.
Bound in tan cloth; beveled covers; green leather labels on front cover and spine, stamped in gold; top edges gilt.  In protective box.
Accompanied by a 2 leaf prospectus for the work.
Book-plate of Julia Yerkes Atkinson, one of original subscribers.