Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants

Harriet Stewart Miner, Hatch Lith Co

Lee and Shepard ; Charles T. Dillingham, Boston, New York, 1889

Folio; 35 cm. Publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in brown and gilt. All edges gilt. Solid binding. Corners bumped, minor fray.  Library blindstamp on title.  90 pages, 24 chromolithographic plates. This was the first color plate book on orchids published by an American. "This is the ranking work on the subject, and very striking" (Bennett, American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books p 78). Nissen BBI, 1382 (first edition of 1885).