Flowers from Glade and Garden. Poems Arranged and Illustrated by Susie Barstow Skelding. New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1884.
This is a beautiful Victorian-era gift book featuring full-page chromolithograph color plates of flowers paired with selected poetry. Includes vibrant illustrations of nasturtiums, pansies, tulips, geraniums, irises, black-eyed Susans, and more. The book pairs botanical art with works by authors such as William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Percy Bysshe Shelley, James Russell Lowell, and others.
Bound in original dark brown cloth with striking gilt and black floral design on the front cover and spine. Floral patterned endpapers. Book measures approx. 8.25 x 9.25 inches. Pages not numbered. Handwritten 1885 gift inscription at front. Wear to covers; rear endpaper has a tear along hinge.
Excellent for collectors of 19th-century chromolithograph books, Victorian botanical illustration, Susie Barstow Skelding titles, or American gift books.
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