Antique 1909 “Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know” Illustrated Book

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Description: Title of Antique Nature/Botany/Botanical Science Photographic Book: Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know

***LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT!

Author(s): Frederic William Stack, Formerly Field Collector for Museums of Scientific Section of Vassar Brothers Institute and of Natural History at Vassar College

Photographers: A. Radclyffe Dugmore; Henry Troth; Nathan R. Graves; The Author; and others

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York

Year of Publication: 1909

Edition: ? 1st/First

Ex-Library Volume: Yes - The Albert Smith Library of San Acacio, Colorado - HOWEVER, appears to have never been checked out - perhaps only a reference copy only as there is no "check-out" pocket anywhere in the book, nor is there any library imprinting on any of the pages or spine. Only identifying info as to library status is a bookplate on the inside front cover board, a library stamp on that same page, and a couple of pencil numberings at the top of the title page

Total of Numbered Pages: 411

Size: 5"W x 7 ½"H

Format: Hard Cover

Dust Jacket: N/A

Condition: EXCELLENT!

*Cover/Exterior - evinces no shelf/edge wear or surface handling

*Binding/Spine - tightly intact

*Interior Contents - crisply clean pages evince no noted writing, foxing, markings, water damage, staining, or odors of any kind

CONTENTS:

*Preface

*Illustrations

***SECTION I

*Red Flowers

***SECTION II

*Pink Flowers

*Flower Forms

***SECTION III

*Yellow and Orange Flowers

*Leaf and Root Forms

***SECTION IV

*White and Greenish Flowers

***SECTION V

*Blue and Purple Flowers

***GLOSSARY AND INDEXES

*Glossary of Botanical Terms

*Index to Latin Names

*Index to Common Names

ILLUSTRATIONS:

*"Meadows trim with daisies pied"

*Oswego Tea

*Butter and Eggs

*Dandelion

*Fringed Gentian

*Skunk Cabbage

*Wood Lily

*Wild Columbine

*Pitcher-Plant

*Pinesap

*Indian Pipe

*Scarlet Painted Cup

*Wood Betony

*Cardinal Flower

*Moccasin Flower

*Bouncing bet

*Joe Pye Weed

*Meadow Clover

*White Azalea

*Pink Azalea

*Trailing Arbutus

*Shooting Star

*Milkweed (summer and autumn)

*Turtlehead

*Meadow Lily

*Yellow Adder’s Tongue

*Great Mullen

*Evening Primrose

*Whorled Loosetrife

*Butterfly Weed

*Downy False Foxglove

*Golden Aster

*Black-eyed Susan

*Tansy

*Rattlesnake Weed

*Large-flowered Wake Robin

*Painted Wake Robin

*Rue Anemone

*Meadow Violet

*May Apple

*Bloodroot

*Dutchman’s Breeches

*Meadow-sweet

*Yarrow

*Heal-all

*Sweet White Violet

*Wild Carrot

*Boneset

*White Wood Aster

*May Weed

*Blue-eyed Grass

*Ox-eye Daisy

*Large Purple-fringed Orchis

*Hepatica

*Closed Gentian

*Great Lobelia

*New York Aster

*Purple-stem Aster

*Blue Sailors

*Flower Forms

*Leaf and Root Forms

Status: No Longer Available	Reference#: Wild_Flowers_Every_Child_Should_Know_Book_1909
Condition: Excellent - Refer to Condition Details within Listing	Year: 1909
Maker: Author - Frederic William Stack
Title: Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know

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