[Nursery Specimen Book]:

$1,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

[NURSERY SPECIMEN SAMPLE BOOK CONTAINING SEVENTY-SEVEN PLATES, PLUS ELEVEN LATER PLATES LAID IN]. An extensive nursery sample book, displaying fruits and flowering shrubs in a series of chromolithographic and pochoir stenciled plates. The plates are by two Rochester firms, J.W. Thompson and Stecher. Several of the chromolithographs are dated copyright 1888. The Thompson firm was active from 1876 to 1891. The handsome color plates show apples, peaches, pears, grapes, cherries, berries, and several flowering shrubs, as well as a walnut tree with sample nuts displayed. The eleven later plates were produced by Julius Bien in New York, dated 1901, and come out of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Yearbook. A handsome and large collection of early fruit plates.

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