Field Book Of Western Wildflowers

Authors

Margaret Armstrong
J. J. Thornbern
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Files

Description

xx, 596 pages color frontispiece, illustrations, color plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "With five hundred illustrations in black and white, and forty-eight plates in color drawn from nature by the author." Publisher should be G. P. Putnam's Sons. Includes index. Decorated publisher's binding. Title lettering and cover design by Margaret Armstrong, emboss in gold on red cloth, light-orange on edges. "Eighth printing, August 1926" Armstrong was one of the first women to descend to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. She is credited with discovering new flower species there.

Publication Date

1926

Imprint / Year

New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915.

RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record

https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1708257~S5

Publisher

G. P. Putnam's Sons

City

New York

Keywords

Bound to Please Exhibit 2022; landscape architecture; flowers (plants)

Disciplines

Book and Paper | Landscape Architecture

Recommended Citation

Armstrong, Margaret; Thornbern, J. J.; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Field Book Of Western Wildflowers" (1926). Landscape Architecture. 1.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_landscapearchitecture/1