Flowers That Never Fade : an account of the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models in the Harvard University Museum / by Franklin Baldwin Wiley Author of "The Harvard Guide-Book"

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiley, Franklin Baldwin, 1861- author.

Contributor:

Franklin Baldwin Wiley Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (Harvard University. Botanical Museum).

Harvard University. Botanical Museum.

Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895.

Glass flowers.

Penn Provenance:

Wiley, Franklin Baldwin, 1861- (autograph)

Physical Description:

41, [3] pages ; 14 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bradlee Whidden, Publisher, 1897.

Notes:

"This account of the Ware collection of Blaschka glass flowers at Harvard appeared originally in the Boston Transcript, It was prepared for that newspaper in compliance with requests from several correspondents for information concerning this unique collection ... it has been carefully revised and considerably extended, and is now republished in a more convenient and permanent form."--Note.

White cloth covered boards with front cover stamped in blue featuring an illustration of flowering plant. Text preceded by poem which features line "Flowers that never fade".

Local Notes:

QK79.H34: Sold by David J. Holmes Autographs (Hamilton, New York), 2010. Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Walter J. Miller Trust, the Althea Hottel and Abraham S. Hottel, Jr. Fund, and from the Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund is inscribed "Jessie with love from Franklin".

Other Format:

Online version: Wiley, Franklin Baldwin, b. 1861. Flowers that never fade.

OCLC:

6502364

Online:

http://hdl.library.upenn,edu/1017.12/366272