"A wealth of color photographs of exteriors and interiors, catalog reproductions, and some well-written explanatory text combine to give...[this] handsome hard-cover volume a full picture of the Victorian home....A well-illustrated reference work...a plethora of ideas".-- "Victorian Homes
. 192 pages (88 in color), 400 b/w illus., 9 x 10 1/4.
... Reed 524 Reedmace 511 Rehmannia 264 Reinwardtia 119 Reseda 16o RESEDACEAE 16o Restharrow 134 Restionaceae 518 Reynoutria 90 RHAMNACEAE (see Volume 1) Rhazya 2.13 Rheum 93 Rhinanthus 277 Rhinopetalum 418 Rhipsalis 87 Rhodochiton 25; ...
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