Introduction Mrs L H Sigourney (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Introduction by Mrs. L. H. Sigourney. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 480 pages, red cloth. A near fine, clean, hardcover reprint edition with minimal shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, and with a blush of foxing to the fore-edges. In a very good, clean dust jacket with minor edge wear. A 1975 reprint of the 1856 edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket: Fair. Tan cloth covered boards with lovely brown cover art. Very minor soiling to extremities. Dust Jacket shows significant wear. Large chip missing from lower corner of front cover in addition to several other smaller tears/chips. Binding solid and true. Pages show toning, but otherwise clean. Filled with fascinating etched illustrations including frontispiece. 480 pages.

folio [36.5 x 29 cm]; vii, [i], 44 pp, 22 fine hand colored plates including frontis (complete), each with tissue guard, illustrating 25 flowers. original full blind-stamped leather, gilt picture on front cover, gilt title, gilt spine decorations, all edges gilted, cover wear at edges and joints, slightly foxed on few leaves but overall interior is quite clean and near fine. Nissen 57. Bennett p. 6: '22 brilliant full page plates in color, each plate accompanied by an appropriate poem printed on the opposite page. The flower prints are very fine lithographs by Donaldson Brothers of New York'. Donaldson Brothers are highly celebrated for their fine hand colored botanical books. The frontis is an attractive bouquet. 'Mrs. Badger's fine drawings and talented hand have survived to keep her name alive' [Kramer, Women of Flowers]. A picture of this book is available on request.