Cora Illustrator Author Sarle Helena (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: F/VG/VG. y First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp. HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: The * Binding and cover condition: Slate green cloth, gilt title to spine & to face. No bumps, minor rubs to corners, head & tail of spine and lower edges, no other visible shelf wear. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing several flower spriggs now in protected jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Some slight marks. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Olive green coloured end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour botanical studies throughout.* Pages: Unpaginated text. x pp. after-word, list of plant names & blank pages at rear.* Description: Over one hundred years ago, a young woman at Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire was considered too frail to take part in the rigorous daily duties of the working Shaker Sisters. Yet Cora Helena Sarle had a talent for art, and the spiritual leader of the community, Elder Henry Clay Blinn, suggested that she use her gift for the good of the communal family. Thus she began her task of recording all the wild plants, herbs and flowers around the village. This lovely facsimile captures the life and times not only of Cora Helena Sarle but of Canterbury Shaker Village in the 1880?s. Essays by a noted Shaker expert June Sprigg and Village president Scott T. Swank illuminate the patterns of daily living in the nineteenth century community.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. edition with minor cover wear reducing it to VG. Now in protected dust jacket.* 1997-04-01. n.