Flora's interpreter, or, The American book of flowers and sentiments / by Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879, author.

Contributor:

Thomas H. Webb & Co., publisher.

Education Press, printer.

Gift Book Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flower language.

Flowers in literature.

Gift books.

Genre:

Gift books.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (Gift Book Collection copy)

Whiting, Abby (autograph) (Gift Book Collection copy)

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Vodwarka, Frances Pitcher, 1831-1910 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, [3], 14-262, [2] pages, [2] leaves of color plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm

Edition:

Fourteenth edition, improved.

Other Title:

Flora's interpreter

American book of flowers and sentiments

Place of Publication:

Boston : Thomas H. Webb & Co., [1847?]

Notes:

Date supplied from Faxon.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Gift Book Collection copy has the autograph, in pencil, of Abby Whiting, on the front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Frances B. Pitcher") of Frances B. Pitcher (later Vodwarka; 1831-1910) on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy has numerous botanical specimens laid in.

Schimmel Collection copy has clipping from a New Bedford, Massachusetts publication (ca. 1846) with two poems by John Quincy Adams laid in; clipping from an unidentified publication with poem "How changed thou art" by John H. Taylor laid in.

Cited in:

Faxon, F. W. Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 199

OCLC:

4054549