1845 book of flowers
"Drops From Flora's Cup or the Poetry of Flowers"
Written by Miss Mary Griffin
Publisher: Charles H. Peirce, Boston, Massachusetts
The Poetry of Flowers
with a
Floral Vocabulary
by Miss Mary M Griffin
This lovely little book is a substantial 160 pages in
length yet is measures just 3 x 4 3/4 inches. Published in Boston in 1845 and 1848 it
is not in perfect condition, yet the gilt letters and flowers on the covers and
the gilding on the end pages are bright and clear. A polychrome title page is
carefully separated by a layer of tissue.
The book is fragile, yet so lovely; it is poignant
to think that Emily Dickinson was 15 when this book was published and might
have seen an edition of this book.
The poems inside include offerings by Wordsworth,
Milton and Shakespeare among other lesser poets.
Note: this book is 175 years old, so it is very fragile.
This antiquarian book will ship from my non-smoking home in the condition photographed and described.