Spire Blondel - Recherches sur les couronnes de fleurs - 1876

Very rare; This is the only monograph of this charming custom among Mexicans, Indians, Chinese, Greeks, Romans. . . giving interesting details about the wreaths dedicated to feasts, ceremonies . . .

Second edition after the first published in 1869.
Bradel binding, full orange cloth, smooth spine, laminated title piece. Covers and spine preserved.

Very fresh specimen, in excellent condition.

Origin of wreaths among ancient peoples, use of wreaths of foliage, art of braiding wreaths, wreaths galantes, for the neck and chest, for cuts, artificial, flowers and fruits imitated in wax, cause of the abandonment of wreaths in the nineteenth century, etc.

Spire Blondel
Flower Wreath Research
Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1876
in-12 (19 x 12 cm) ; 118pp.

Subject: Rare monograph on flower crowns by Spire Blondel Ethnology Customs Manners Antiquity America Asia