OFFERING
"AN ISLAND GARDEN
BY CELIA THAXTER
WITH PICTURES AND ILLLUMINATIONS BY
CHILDE HASSAM"

INTRODUCTION BY ALLEN LACY

SEE VIEWS ABOVE

THIS BOOK WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1894
BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, BOSTON

THIS IS THE REPRINT EDITION FROM 1988
- EXACTLY AS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED -
ALSO PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

 WITH FULL NUMBER LINE

HARDCOVER BOOK IN SLIPCASE

12 BEAUTIFUL FULL-PAGE PLATE
ILLUSTRATIONS BY FREDERICK CHILDE HASSAM

ALSO CHAPTER HEADINGS THROUGHOUT

AND A MAP LAYOUT OF THAXTER'S "ISLAND GARDEN"
IN THE FRONT

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CELIA THAXTER WAS AN AMERICAN POET AND AMATEUR ARTIST
(1836-1894)

SHE GREW UP ON THE ISLES OF SHOALS
(10 miles East of Portsmouth, NH)
WHERE HER FATHER BUILT A LARGE HOTEL ON APPLEDORE ISLAND
WHICH BECAME A GATHERING PLACE FOR AUTHORS AND
ARTISTS OF THE DAY,
SUCH AS
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 
SARAH ORNE JEWETT
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT
AND
CHILDE HASSAM
(who Summered on the island each year)

THE SUMPTUOUS WILDFLOWER GARDEN CULTIVATED BY
 CELIA THAXTER PROVIDED AN
ENTICING CONTRAST TO THE ISLAND'S RUGGED TERRAIN,
WHICH WAS PAINTED BY MANY LANDSCAPE PAINTERS OF THE DAY

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