Heading: (Grandville, J.J.)
Author: Cleaveland, N., translator
Title: The Flowers Personified: Being a Translation of Grandville's "Les Fleurs Animées"
Place Published: New York
Publisher:R. Martin
Date Published: 1849
Description:

Bound with: Foelix's Modern Botany For Ladies: And Ladies' Horticulture. Translated by N. Cleaveland. [2]. 385, [4], iv, [3]-152, 8 pp. 52 hand-colored steel-engraved plates, including additional title page and frontispiece. 26x17 cm. (10x6½"), publisher's brown morocco, gilt-lettered spine, front and back covers with gilt representations of the Grandville design for the title page (a leaf-clothed sprite within a wreath forming the lettering), all edges gilt.

A lovely copy of this book of illustrated anthropomorphized flowers, in the publisher's gilt binding. A former owner's name is skillfully etched on the front free endpaper, matching the style of the book's color plates.

Some wear and rubbing to cloth, rubbing to extremities; browning at endpapers, scattered foxing, mostly at page edges; very good.