Flowers : Their Use and Beauty, Language and Sentiment
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xii, 204pp, colour plate frontispiece and five further colour plate illustrations. Red cloth-covered boards, with gilt lettering and design on spine, black embossed design and gilt embossed and text on front, embossed black design on verso. Bumped at spine ends and corners bent inwards, small stains front and verso. Minor foxing throughout. Gilded text block. Discusses the language associated with different flowers; for example the four-leaved shamrock is 'happiness'. 12mo