Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems miniature paintings with wear and paint loss

with wear and paint loss as evident

71 pages of wood-engravings

so he sold these as a group

finding them quite beautiful objects formally

I have a weakness for these 19th c

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems miniature paintings with wear and paint lossThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect or aspects this one roots and stems with eight different root types (fibrous, creeping, spindle shaped) and twelve different stem types (herbaceous, woody, erect) described and carefully illustrated in