The Field Guide to Edible Plants has nice drawings but it is modern. I lookedd an found Urticacaea and Umbelliferae. There are also lots of U's in a book called Wild Flowers by Homer House. It is out of print, my copy is copywrited 1934, it has beautiful color illustrations, hope this helps. Are you doing an alphabet book? Email me.

I agree with John. One of the best pieces of advice my wonderful mother-in-law gave me was, "If you have something of value that sits in a vault, it has no value at all unless you take it out and enjoy it, or sell it." I have applied that to many things in life - you can revere something but unless it is used, it is useless. If I were you I'd take the plates out and frame them, hang them down the hallway, or even in the spare room, anywhere, or give them as gifts, or sell them for others to enjoy. You don't have to spend a lot of money on frames either - dollar store, craft stores, flea market, etc. I would suggest that you seal the frames around the edges so no dirt or dust gets in, and use some kind of mat to keep the plates from actually touching the glass. I would also put a few of the printed pages sandwiched with acid-free paper behind the plates for a reference of where they came from. You might want to think about the fact that there are hundreds of copies of those books in museums and libraries so yours are not the only ones in existence and they are probably in much better shape so many more people can enjoy the whole books. But your plates can brighten part of the world in a small way, and they would bring joy by being viewed everyday. Nancy the nancedar

tried art.com, and a couple others. I did find the artist is on etsy, about half the price of ethan allen. Also found out what I want is a linocut type print.

I posted the other day and it did not show up. I thanked you for the offer but posted that we made a fabulous find at Home Goods on Sunday!!! Two huge black mesh metal poppies!!! They are perfect to hang behind the red sofa and thought they were very different. They do have something similar on kohls.com but not as large. They must be 36" across, three dimentional and little fru fru metal centers. I did also thank you for your offer to borrow your photos. So thanks everyone and hoping I can learn to post pics again and will post one once she moves in and everything is in place. (I think I preview the post before and never submitted so thanks again for all of your offers of assistance.)