New York: White, Stokes, and Allen, 1883.
Price: $185.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 133pp. Pictorial green cloth stamped in silver, gold and dark green, all edges gilt. Illustrated with twelve full-page color lithograph botanical plates by Susie Barstow Skelding, accompanying poems, some reproduced in holograph facsimile. Poets Helen Hunt [Jackson], Mary Howitt, Lucy Larcom, Mary Mapes Dodge, Margaret E. Sangster, Dora Read Goodale, Elaine Goodale, Celia Thaxter, Will Carleton, James Russell Lowell, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, Bryant, Holmes et al. Cloth lightly rubbed at tips of spine, few faint soil marks on covers, front hinge mended and rear hinge tender (the delicate floral endpapers are prone to cracking), else a very good or better bright copy, with the text and chromolithograph plates very fresh and bright. Susie Barstow Skelding was a prolific author and illustrator, including several similar poetry collections, *Flowers from Glade and Garden, Birds and Blossoms, Midsummer Flowers,* etc.
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