[Nursery Specimen Book]:

$400 · Offered by William Reese Company

[NURSERY SPECIMEN BOOK OF HIRAM H. GURNEY & Co. OF AUBURN, MAINE]. A fine early twentieth-century example of a nursery specimen book, produced in this case by Vredenburg & Co. of Rochester for Hiram H. Gurney & Co. Gurney & Co., based in Auburn, Me., received horticultural orders through a network of agents who used such specimen books in their canvassing. This book highlights the printing company's versatility with tinted and enhanced photographs as well as the striking lithography for which these specimen books are known. Laid in are a number of salesman's order blanks for 1911 as well as an agent's certificate from the company, affixed to the front free endpaper.

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