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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in brown cloth. Decorated spine and upper board. The boards are now protected in a clear, removable, sleeve. All edges gilt. Prize label. Some foxing to end-papers. Pp.vii,199 + 4pp publisher's adverts. Illustrated. This is a tale for girls translated from the French. Uncommon in an early edition (This may be the first edition in English).
Hardcover. Condition: Beide Kap etw. beschäd., Einb. 46/1Ss, 16 Dessins par Telory, OLn m goldgeprägten Zeichnungen, 3seitiger Goldschnitt.
Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R240076158: 1872. In-12. Broché. Etat passable, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Rousseurs. 321 pages - couverture d'attente - coins frottés - quelques rousseurs et quelques traces de mouillures sans réelle conséquence sur la lecture - couverture conservée - manque sur la page de titre - manque sur le dos - tranches salies. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.08-XIX ème siècle.
Published by Paris: Delarue Libraire Editeur, Rue des Grands Augustins, No. 3
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Binding copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Includes color plates - 12 and colored title pages. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 32 pages ; 12 colored plates. Notes; No clear date given. Subjects; Madame J.J. Lambert. French Fiction. 1 Kg.
Published by Paris: Delarue Libraire Editeur, Rue des Grands Augustins, No. 3
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Binding copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Includes color plates - 12 and colored title pages. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 32 pages ; 12 colored plates. Notes; No clear date given. Subjects; Madame J.J. Lambert. French Fiction. 1 Kg.
Published by Delarue [ca. 1870], Paris, 1870
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THE SYMBOLISM OF FLOWERS AND THE ART OF FLOWER-ARRANGING. 8vo. VIII pp, 9-180 pp, with frontispiece and 11 hand-colored plates. Bound in contemporary half-red cloth over marbled boards with gilt title on spine. A wonderfully clean and fresh copy. Rare sole edition (?) of this remarkable emblematic dictionary of flowers, comprehensively covering their symbolism in art and in the new practice of selamography from selam, an Eastern word for a semiotic bouquet. The preface makes it clear that the work is intended for women, and gives several working examples: a reader might send a bouquet of Euphorbia, Helianthus, Fusain, Ornithogale pyramide, and Myosotis or Achilles Mille-feuille to her love interest: this literally means "I was unable to sleep, my eyes see only you, your image is engraved upon my heart, my love is pure, love me like I love you, or cure me of this ill". Following a complete lexicon of flowers and their meanings (from Apricot [ unyielding heart ] to Zinnia [ Be on your guard ], Madame Lambert provides a concise Dictionnaire Emblématique des Plantes, des Feuilles, des Fleurs et des Fruits", which is perhaps more suited to the artist than the bouquet exchanger: cinnamon represents chastity; Datura stramonium (Jimson Weed) represents disguise or artifice ; a fig of course represents modesty; and so on. A chapter on arranging flowers stresses aesthetic considerations: "it is necessary to avoid placing two primary colors next to each other, like dark yellow, carmine or blue one notices that dark green goes nicely with light colors, and light green goes well next to more somber tones ". The title-page declares this to be an illustrated edition , but we have been unable to trace any earlier appearance. OCLC shows just two copies worldwide, none in US libraries; in those records, the true author is suggested to be Jules Rostaing, a prolific hack-writer.