In-door Plants and How to Grow Them, for the Drawing-Room, Balcony, and Greenhouse.

Maling, [Elizabeth Anne.]

Published by London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1861.

About this Item

Elizabeth Anne Maling (1829 Ð 1866) was the author of almost a dozen books on home gardening, flower arranging, and birdkeeping, as well as novels. Her books include Song-birds, and How to Keep Them; the novel Cragstone Cottage; and Birds and Flowers, a gardening guide for children published by Emily FaithfullÕs Victoria Press. Octavo. viii, 150, 2 [publisherÕs ads] pp. With an attractive hand-colored lithograph frontispiece. It may have been the work of Noel Humphreys, who supplied frontispieces for several of MalingÕs other books. PublisherÕs green cloth stamped in gilt with design of plants in a window. Light edgewear. Pale yellow endpapers. Lacking front endpapers. Some toning to title-page. A very good copy of an uncommon book written for middle-class Victorian women at a time when the concept of the ÒhouseplantÓ was still emerging in Britain. First edition of Elizabeth Anne MalingÕs (1829 Ð 1866) first work on houseplants. It was a staple of the Victorian Òcactus craze,Ó during which cacti and other succulents gained popularity as houseplants and began to appear in British art and poetry. Wells, Lindsay. ÒThe Victorian Cactus Craze? Succulents in Nineteenth-Century Poetry.Ó Baylor University Armstrong Browning Library webpage (February 27, 2019). Seller Inventory # 17137

Bibliographic Details

Title: In-door Plants and How to Grow Them, for the...

Publisher: London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1861.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition