Common Wayside Flowers

Multiple artists/makers

1873

Not on view

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Title: Common Wayside Flowers
Author: Thomas Miller (British, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire 1807–1874 Kensington, London)
Illustrator: Myles Birket Foster (British, North Shields, Northumberland 1825–1899 Weybridge, Surrey)
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons, London
Printer: Printed in color by Edmund Evans (British, Southwark, London 1826–1905 Ventnor, Isle of Wight)
Published in: London; New York
Date: 1873
Medium: Illustrations: wood engraving
Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 6 3/8 x 1 3/8 in. (21.6 x 16.2 x 3.5 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953
Object Number: 53.501.1
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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