FLORA'S DICTIONARY

Wirt, Elizabeth Washington Gamble

Verlag: Lucas Brothers, Baltimore, 1855

133,[1],95,[1]pp. plus six color plates, including numerous illustrations. Two ornate extra color titlepages. Quarto. Contemporary red cloth, ornate gilt covers and spine, a.e.g. Moderately rubbed. Plates slightly tanned. Contemporary binder's label on rear pastedown. Very good. Later edition, after the first illustrated edition of 1837. This is the variant quarto edition; an 1855 folio edition was also published by Fielding Lucas. In the other 1855 edition, the publisher is listed as "Fielding Lucas, Jr.," there are fifty-six handcolored plates, and the pagination varies. "One of the most popular genres of color plate books in the antebellum period were those devoted to the sentiments associated with flowers. Color illustrations of flowers were accompanied by a text which guided the reader through the hidden meanings of different blooms, with quotations and poetry appropriate to each.[I]ssued by the publisher of many early books with color, Fielding Lucas of Baltimore" - STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER. An excellent example of a popular 19th- century American color plate book. SABIN 104868. McGRATH, p.36 (another ed). BENNETT, p.115 (another ed). REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 52 (another ed). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM34086

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Titel: FLORA'S DICTIONARY
Verlag: Lucas Brothers, Baltimore
Erscheinungsdatum: 1855