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The Book of Wild Flowers: Color Plates of 250 Wild Flowers and Grasses
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This wonderful volume, assembled from National Geographic magazines dating 1915–24, spotlights some of the finest botanical imagery of its kind, including artwork by Mary E. Eaton, staff illustrator of the New York Botanical Garden. More than 120 color plates.
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The Book of Wild Flowers - The National Geographic Society
Copyright
Copyright © 2020 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2020, reproduces all of the 120 color plates by Mary E. Eaton and the 8 plates by E. J. Geske previously published in The Book of Wild Flowers by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., in 1924. For this edition, the 8 plates on black backgrounds by E. J. Geske have been combined and printed as Plates 58 and 59.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: National Geographic Society (U.S.), author. | Eaton, Mary E., illustrator.
Title: The book of wild flowers: color plates of 250 wild flowers and grasses / National Geographic Society; plates by Mary E. Eaton and E. J. Geske.
Description: Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2020. | This Dover edition, first published in 2020, reproduces all of the 120 color plates by Mary E. Eaton and the 8 plates by E. J. Geske previously published in The Book of Wild Flowers by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., in 1924.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019054626 | ISBN 9780486840949 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Flowers—United States. | Wild flowers—United States. | Grasses—United States.
Classification: LCC QK115 .N3 2020 | DDC 582.130973—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054626
Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications
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English botanical artist Mary Emily Eaton (1873–1961) contributed the 120 pages of flower paintings for the original 1924 edition of The Book of Wild Flowers while she was employed by The New York Botanical Garden. At the time, National Geographic Magazine editor William Joseph Showalter praised her as
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