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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 : a gift book for all seasons / by Mrs. Sarah C. Carter.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5648
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Sarah C., author.
- 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)
- Troope, Virgie Barr, 1932-1994 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, [1], 149, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 18 cm
- Manufacture:
- Boston : Stereotyped by Dillingham & Bragg, 41 Congress Street.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : G.W. Cotrell, 1860.
- Notes:
- Frontispiece portrait (plate) with guard tissue.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Virgie Troope"), possibly of Virgie Lee Troope (née Barr; 1932-1994), on front free endpaper; dated 19th-century manuscript gift inscription ("To Jane with the best wishes of her Cousin Maria December 5/61") on front free endpaper; stamp ("R. Jane") on back pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 19273815
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