Heading: (Chromolithography - Gift Books)
Author:
Title: Collection of books featuring botanical and floral chromolithographs
Place Published: Various places
Publisher:Various publishers
Date Published: 1839-1881
Description:

41 volumes. Illustrated, all featuring some use of chromolithography, some in the form of dedication and title pages; plus lithographs, woodcuts, and some portraits from photographs. Variously sized and bound in cloth and leather, tooled in blind and gilt.

A large selection of mid-19th-century gift books, annuals, and poetry books, most charmingly illustrated with chromolithographs in botanical or floral themes. Numerous bookplates, ink stamps, and ownership marks of various owners throughout.

41 volumes, some repeating titles in variant bindings or editions, includes:

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  Dinnies, Anna Peyre. The Floral Year... Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1847.


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  The Family Circle and Parlor Annual. New York: James C. Reed, 1851. (Covers detached, spine strip lost)


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  The Remember Me:... Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1853.


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  Goodrich, S.G., editor. The Token, or Affection's Gift,... New York: A. & C.B. Edwards, n.d.


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  Coxe, Margaret. Floral Emblems; Or, Moral Sketches from Flowers. Cincinnati; New York: Henry W. Derby & Co.; D. Appleton & Co., 1845.


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  Dumont, Henrietta. The Lady's Oracle:... Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1851.


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  Moody, Park. The Chaplet of Roses. New York: J.M. Fletcher & Co., 1851.


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  Miller, T. The Poetical Language of Flowers... London: David Bogue, 1855.


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  Floral Souvenir. A Perennial Gift. Chambersburg, PA: Shryock, Reed & Co., 1841.


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  Holiday Hours Improved. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1850.


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  Hale, Sarah Josepha. Flora's Interpreter, and Fortuna Flora. Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey and Company, 1849.


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  Hale, Sarah Josepha. Flora's Interpreter, and Fortuna Flora. Boston: Chase, Nichols, and Hill, 1860.


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  The Family Circle and Parlor Annual. New York: James C. Reed, 1852.


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  Floral Poetry. London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1877.


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  Goodrich, S.G. A Winter Wreath of Summer Flowers. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1855. 2 copies.


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  Harrison, Constance Cary. Woman's Handiwork in Modern Homes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. 3 copies.


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  The Garland of the Year... London: Marcus Ward & Co., n.d.


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  Freeling, Arthur, editor. Flowers: Their Use and Beauty. London: Darton and Co., 1858.


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  Burke, L., editor. The Illustrated Language of Flowers. London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.


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  Johns, C.A. Monthly Gleanings from the Field and Garden. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d.


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  Thomson, Spencer. Wanderings Among the Wild Flowers:... London: G. Routledge & Co., 1857.


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  Moore, Thomas. A Popular History of the British Ferns... London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d.


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  The Flower Alphabet. Boston: S. Colman, 1845.


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  Miller, T. The Poetical Language of Flowers... New York: J.C. Riker, 1848.


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  Songs of the Woodland. The Garden and the Sea. New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1858.


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  Waterman, Catharine H. Flora's Lexicon:... Philadelphia: Herman Hooker, 1839.


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  Waterman, Catharine H. Flora's Lexicon:... Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1855.


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  Hewitt, Mary E., editor. Laural Leaves: A Chaplet... New York: Lamport, Blakeman & Law, 1854. 2 copies.


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  Hooper, Lucy, editor. The Lady's Book of Flowers and Poetry;... New York: J.C. Riker, 1844.


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  Griswold, Rufus W., editor. Gift of Flowers... New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1854.


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  The Gift of Affection:... New York: Leavitt & Allen, n.d.


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  Osgood, Frances S., editor. The Poetry of Flowers... New York: J.C. Riker, 1846.


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  Percival, Emily, editor. The Amaranth:... New York: Leavitt & Allen, n.d.


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  The Poetry of Flowers;... London: Tilt and Bogue, 1841.


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  Cummings, A.I. The Lady's Present:... Boston: J. Buffum, 1849.


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  Woodman, H.J. Sibylline Verses;... Boston: Abel Tompkins, 1846.


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  Martyn, S.T., editor. The Ladies' Wreath, A Magazine... New York: Martyn & Ely, 1848.

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Varying degrees of wear to bindings; some cracked hinges and shaken bindings, varying repairs to gutters, foxing and occasional soiling; very good.