Early Seeds to Produce Spring Flowers

Book Description

London: William Darton and Son, [1830-1836]. 24pp., 12mo. Twelve hand-colored engraved plates, each with two vignettes, many dated “1st mo. 2nd 1824”; last text leaf torn across and a shorter tear to the first text leaf, both neatly repaired without loss, a few spots and stains. Original printed wrappers; soiled, rebacked: a well-used but sound copy. Fourth edition, not so stated, reusing the plates from the first edition of 1824. This may be, as Marjorie Moon points out, a book where “the pieces were written to describe the pictures,” but the pictures are unusually interesting. They include a fire-escape ladder, brewing, “A Newfoundland Dog preserving a Child from a Watery Grave,” “Building a House,” and “Filling a Balloon.” The Dartons, H419(4); Moon, Mary Elliott, 69. No copy of this edition in OCLC, which locates six copies of the first.

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