Bath : Binns and Goodwin ; London : Whittaker and Co., 1848.
Physical Description:
iv, 94 pages, [37] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts QK50 .W55 1848 Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:13576556
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Attributed to Mary Matilda Howard.The 37 plates bear pressed flower specimens, with descriptive text."Extracts from well-known and well-approved authors."Includes indexes.Title page is wood-engraved.BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's gilt-stamped red leather. Two inscriptions: "Mary E. Anderson in memory of her friend Jane Eliza Galland from her sisters with their love, Welton Hill, October 1858."; "From Miss Jewitt to Audrey Mary Wilkinson as a keepsake from Carleton School Pontefract May 6th 1921."
Subject Terms:
Pressed flower pictures. | Wild flowers. | Poetry, English. | Flowers in literature. | Flowers in literature. | Wild flowers. | Anderson, Mary E. -- Presentation inscription from sisters of Jane Eliza Galland. | Jewitt, Miss -- Presentation inscription to Audrey Mary Wilkinson. | Wilkinson, Audrey Mary -- Presentation inscription from Miss Jewitt. | Women in natural history.
Form/Genre:
Dried flowers. | Poems. | Wood engravings.
Contributors:
Howard, Mary M. (Mary Matilda), 1804–1893, compiler. | Binns and Goodwin, publisher. | Whittaker & Co., publisher.
