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• Title:The art of modelling flowers in paper to imitate nature.
  
• Published/Created:[London] : Hutton & Co., 6, Newgate Street, London, [ca. 1870?]
  
• Physical Description:8 p., 6 p. of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: TT892 .A78 1870
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center in original blue printed wrappers. Publisher's advertisements on recto and verso of back cover.
  
• Notes:With instructions on the cutting, molding, and construction of the anemone, carnation, China aster, corn flower, dahlia, field poppy, garden poppy, scarlet geranium, hawthorn or may, jasmine (white or yellow), larkspur, lily of the valley, myrtle, orange flower, ranunculus, rose, sweet pea, tulip, and white lily. A pattern for the petals of each flower is offered in the plates at end.
  Hutton & Co. was working at this address in 1870. Cf. Street's Indian & Colonial mercantile directory.
  Cover title.
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Paper flowers--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Artificial flowers--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Paper work--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Fancy work--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Decorative arts--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1870
  Lithography--Specimens--1870.
  Hutton & Co.--Publisher.