Show nature printing A scholar fingering old books on the table of a secondhand second hand book shop frequently comes on a volume or of poetry or a victorian novel with a lower flower or leaf pressed among the pages sometimes the form of the dried plant has h been transferred in a brown stain to one page says the new york sun to a botanist such a stain would be likely to recall certain volumes of nature printing issued in the eighteenth century in which accurate records of leaves and whole plants were made by a kind hind of transfer process no longer generally practiced |