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With characteristic generosity, the plate groups its subjects not by botanical classification but by human utility—everything gathered here is gathered because it feeds us—resulting in one of the most charming and encyclopedic botanical illustrations of popular publishing: nine edible species, from true fruits to fungi to tubers, united by the simple fact that they belong on the table. 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