(Fruit) Wax Flowers, How to Make Them, with New Methods of Sheeting Wax, Modelling Fruit, &c.

Illus. with wood engravings of wax fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Gilt-tooled green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1869.

A charming volume of directions for moulding wax fruit, vegetables and flowers, including wax cucumbers, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, gooseberries, melons, oranges, grapes, currants, etc. Colors are also discussed at length, including achieving variations within the same piece. Title page detached and chipped but present, else very good.

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