A Shaker Sister’s Drawings.

Cora Sarle.

A facsimile of 180 colour paintings of the wild flowers and herbs growing around her home, the Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire in the 1880s. Her work comprised two modest notebooks  filled with accurate and delicate drawings complemented by notes on how and where the plants grew. A beautiful book printed on heavy cream paper.

The Monacelli Press Inc, New York, USA, 1997.

ISBN 9781885254528

Hardback with dust jacket. Unpaginated.

SECONDHAND. Fine condition.