Author: JOHNSTON, ELIZA GRIFFIN; JOHNSTON, ELIZA GRIFFIN
Title: Texas Wild Flowers Gilt and Embossed Hardbackthe Delux Limited Edition, with Protective Clear Mylar
Description: Shoal Creek Publishers, 1972. Limited delux Edition. Hardcover. Delux edition with the clear protector intact and as published. A beautiful copy with clean text and a very slight barely visible fade to about one inch of the cover at the bottom front, which keepsit from being classified as 'fine'. Tan leatherette boards with gilt stamped initials of Eliza Griffin Johnston. Maps of New Mexico and Texas on the endpapers. Color wildflower illustrations on each page.." All associated with Shoal Creek Publishers of Austin, Texas, applaud most warmly the decision of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas to make available in published form the manuscript copy of Texas Wild Flowers, painted from nature in the 1840s and 1850s by Eliza Griffin Johnston for her dear husband Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas were entrusted with the original manuscript by Mrs. Johnston and since 1894 have carefully preserved this rare gift. "; Color Illustrations; Oversize; 205 pages. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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