Mark Catesby Botantical Plate - The Cardinal - American Preservation Guild for Gorham Fine China circa 1976-1978 binder style This is the 13th edition

This is the 13th edition published in July 1925

brought out to keep guests cool and hydrated as they enjoyed a summer lunch on a sweeping verandah

This tray could have spent most of its life up North in New England or somewhere along the Atlantic coastline

There are minor random cooking spots on some pages throughout (mostly around the baking chapters

its floral appeal

Mark Catesby Botantical Plate - The Cardinal - American Preservation Guild for Gorham Fine China circa 1976-1978 binder style This is the 13th editionwith unbelievably lifelike coloring, presented the rarest trees, plants, animals, birds, fishes it is difficult to believe that it is not the real thing that stands in its natural colour on the paper. Pehr Kahm, 1748 on the art of Mark Catesby {HISTORY} From the portfolio of the famed British naturalist, Mark Catesby (1683 1749) comes this beautiful painting of a red bird captured while sitting on a hickory tree. Now referred to as The Cardinal, this