Flora's Interpreter: Or, The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments / Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
Book
223 p., [2] leaves of plates : col. ill.
Note: tissue guarded floral hand colored engraved plates.
A collection of poems about flowers- a common subject and theme for gift books, especially those marketed to the female buyer. Indices of American authors, interpretations, poems.
2017.11.18
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Flower language1830s
7 in
4-3/8 in
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
First
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1832
Publisher's Binding- Ribbon-Embossed Cloth
Bound in black ribbon-embossed cloth in an abstract pattern with black leather gilt ruled spine and title.