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

rice dishes

Gilt-lettered mustard cloth

gooseberries

Berkeley: Howell-North Books

Near fine condition - a sweet little book

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