Lexicon of ladies names : with their floral emblems : containing one hundred and sixty-two names, with their significations : also one hundeed [sic] and forty-one flowers, with their symbolic language / by Mrs. Sarah C. Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Sarah C., author.

Contributor:

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Poetry.

Women.

Flowers--Symbolic aspects.

Flowers.

Names, Personal--English.

Names, Personal.

Flower language.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Hoyt Public Library (Saginaw, Mich.) (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, [1], 248 pages, [2] leaves of plates : portrait ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

Boston : Stereotyped by Dillingham & Bragg, 41 Congress Street.

Place of Publication:

Boston : G.W. Cotrell, 1865.

Notes:

Frontispiece portrait (plate) with tissue guard.

Special color-lithographed half-title leaf (plate) with tissue guard reads: Language of flowers.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has white ink stamp ("HOYT PUBLIC LIBRARY SAGINAW, MICHIGAN") on left and right boards; round embossed stamp ("HOYT PUBLIC LIBRARY SAGINAW MICHIGAN") of the same institution on title leaf; dated 20th-century stamp ("HOYT AU 2 1956") of the same institution on page [iii]; manuscript note ("Do not circ") on verso of back free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy has armorial bookplate of George Marshall (motto: Decipimur specie recti) on front pastedown

Schimmel Collection copy: pages 81-112 detached.

OCLC:

5012831