How to know the wild flowers : a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common wild-flowers

Author Frances Theodora Parsons American

1899

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Brown cloth with flowering bush stamped in sliver and sea green with silver banner wrapped around the stem with the words "New leaf, new life - the days of Frost are o'er" by Tennyson, title stamped in silver, author and illustrator stamped in sea green all within a decorative silver border, title, author, and publisher stamped in silver with sea green and silver flowers on spine. Signed MA [Margaret Armstrong].

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Title: How to know the wild flowers : a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common wild-flowers
Artist: Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)
Author: Frances Theodora Parsons (American, 1861–1952)
Publisher: Charles Scribners' Sons
Date: 1899
Geography: New York, New York
Dimensions: xvii, 373 pages : illustrations ; Height: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
Object Number: Publishers Bindings 51

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