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Emma C. Embury
American Wild Flowers in their native haunts... With twenty plates of plants, carefully colored after nature; and landscape views of their localities, from drawings on the spot, by E. Whitefield. New York, 1845
First edition. This scarce American colorplate book has lovely colored plates with background scenes from the Hudson River, interspersed with sentimental Victorian texts. This book has some importance in the history of color plate books in America as it straddles the past techniques of hand coloring and the future of mass production with chromolithography.
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