THE FLORAL KINGDOM, ITS HISTORY, SENTIMENT AND POETRY. A Dictionary of Plants, with the Genera and Families to which They Belong, and the Language of Each, Illustrated with About Two Thousand Appropriate Gems of Poetry from Nearly Five Hundred Authors, Together with a Practical Treatise for Amateurs on the Cultivation and Analysis of Plants

Quarto: xv, [3], 476 pp. with a tipped-in frontispiece and 1 full-page plate, both chromolithographs, as well as 13 full-page plates, page ornaments, and illuminated initials, all wood engravings. In the publisher's red diagonal fine-ribbed cloth binding, with beveled boards; white, silver, and black-stamped ruled and ornamental borders, around a full-cover vignette of a great house garden with framing vine-covered branches and spider's web, and decorative titling on the front panel; white and silver-stamped ruled bands, white, silver, and black-stamped ornamental bands and devices, and decorative titling on the spine; and blind-stamped ruled and ornamental borders with ornamental corners, and a central ornamental device on the rear panel. Typical light toning to the contents, with some mild creasing to the rear flyleaf and a partially scuffed out inscription to the front pastedown. The boards are fresh and bright, with some very light fading along the spine. Better than very good. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. …