The Flowers of Shakespeare

First ediion, first impression.  64pp, colour illustrations throughout. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine, cream endpapers. 4to. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun-faded, has very light shelf wear and chipping to edges, not price clipped.  Shakespeare’s dramatic works references more than fifty different types of flowers and herbs. They are the source of phrases such as ‘gilding the lily’ and ‘a rose by any other name’, and appeared in paintings such as those of Ophelia, the tragic heroine in Hamlet, who drowned herself surrounded by garlands of wild flowers.