Victoria Regia Or The Great Water Lily Of America With A Brief Account Of Its Discovery And

by John Fisk Allen

$29,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Expertly bound to style in quarter dark blue morocco and marbled paper boards. Original publisher's paper lettered upper wrapper bound in. Within custom dark blue morocco-backed box. A monument to American colour printing, a work which launched the age of chromolithography as an art in the United States, and one of the most beautiful flower books ever produced. The Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America, provides an appropriate showcase for this

• Binding: Leather

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