Edgarton, Language of Flowers & Poetry 1843 1stEd.
"The Flower Vase; containing The Language of Flowers and Their Poetical Sentiments", by Miss S.C. Edgarton, Lowell: Powers and Bagley, 1843, copyright 1843 by A.C. Bagley, First Edition.
The book includes the meaning of almost 150 flowers, matching poetry, and Index of described flowers and is illustrated with a hand colored frontispiece.
Provenance:
Former property of Mary Gertrude White, Salem, Massachusetts.
Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo (1819-1848), American author and editor. She edited "The Rose of Sharon", an annual, from 1840 until 1848, and was an associate editor of "The Universalist and Ladies' Repository", a monthly magazine in Boston, from 1839 until 1842. Between 1836 and 1844, she published "The Palfreys", "Ellen Clifford", and "Memoirs of Mrs. Julia W. Scott", and compiled "The Poetry of Women", "The Flower Vase", "Spring Flowers", "The Floral Fortune Teller", "Language and Poetry of Flowers and Fables of Flora". She associated with the writer Charlotte Ann Fillebrown Jerauld.
US: Priority (c.2-4 days) ------- $15.50
Canada: Priority (c.2-6 weeks) -- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) --- $37.50
Condition Report: Original publisher's decorative hard boards, pocket size format, 3" x 4.1/2" [7.5cm x 11.5cm]; both boards are embossed, gold decorated front board and spine [some wear, especially spine ends: see picture]; cream-yellow endpapers are present, the first blank page before frontispiece is missing, "Mary G. White" and "Gertie White" is written on the back of the frontispiece, 157 pages, almost all pages are decorated [see pictures]; very little soiling, very good condition.
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"The Flower Vase; containing The Language of Flowers and Their Poetical Sentiments", by Miss S.C. Edgarton, Lowell: Powers and Bagley, 1843, copyright 1843 by A.C. Bagley, First Edition.
The book includes the meaning of almost 150 flowers, matching poetry, and Index of described flowers and is illustrated with a hand colored frontispiece.
Provenance:
Former property of Mary Gertrude White, Salem, Massachusetts.
Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo (1819-1848), American author and editor. She edited "The Rose of Sharon", an annual, from 1840 until 1848, and was an associate editor of "The Universalist and Ladies' Repository", a monthly magazine in Boston, from 1839 until 1842. Between 1836 and 1844, she published "The Palfreys", "Ellen Clifford", and "Memoirs of Mrs. Julia W. Scott", and compiled "The Poetry of Women", "The Flower Vase", "Spring Flowers", "The Floral Fortune Teller", "Language and Poetry of Flowers and Fables of Flora". She associated with the writer Charlotte Ann Fillebrown Jerauld.
US: Priority (c.2-4 days) ------- $15.50
Canada: Priority (c.2-6 weeks) -- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) --- $37.50
Condition Report: Original publisher's decorative hard boards, pocket size format, 3" x 4.1/2" [7.5cm x 11.5cm]; both boards are embossed, gold decorated front board and spine [some wear, especially spine ends: see picture]; cream-yellow endpapers are present, the first blank page before frontispiece is missing, "Mary G. White" and "Gertie White" is written on the back of the frontispiece, 157 pages, almost all pages are decorated [see pictures]; very little soiling, very good condition.
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