Details

Subject(s)

• Flowers in literature [Browse]
• Flowers—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Flowers—Pictorial works [Browse]

Publisher

Harris, J. (John), -1856 [Browse]

Printer

Bryer, Henry [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Printed wrappers [Browse]
• Publishers' advertisements [Browse]
• Inscriptions [Browse]

Series

• Harris's cabinet of amusement and instruction [More in this series]
• Harris's cabinet of amusement and instruction ; 16 [More in this series]

Contained in

• Poetic garland.
• [10 toy books by Harris and Darton]

Summary note

The flowers and shrubs, having heard of the Peacock at Home, Butterfly's Ball, Grasshopper's Feast, plan a “gala” of their own, organized by Mrs. Rose who issues invitations by sending out her fragrance because the flowers “want the organs of speech”; Mrs. Rose becomes “so fatigued” by “her dissipation” that she completely loses her bloom and comes out “no more this season.”

Notes

• Series printed at head of upper wrapper.
• Printer from t.p. verso.
• Illustrations: Captioned engraved front. showing Mrs. Rose (dated March 10, 1808) and seven other engravings of flower, depicting flowers or plants in an anthropomorphized manner that anticipates Walter Crane's work in titles such as Flora's Feast or Queen Summer); floral vignette on t.p.
• Princeton copy 1: Hand-colored plates, with uncolored frontis. vignette.
• Princeton copy 2: Uncolored ills.
• Princeton copy 2: No. 6 of a vol. with 10 children's chapbooks.

Binding note

• Issued in both blue and buff pub. wrappers (cf. Moon).
• Princeton copy 1: Pub. dark buff wrappers, pictorial upper with cover title penned in a calligraphic hand, presumably as issued, in a ruled space between series title and a vignette of two musical ladies.
• Princeton copy 1: Inscribed at head with series no. (“No 16”) and price (“1/6”), presumably as issued.
• Princeton copy 2: Lacks wrappers, apparently removed for rebinding.

References

• Moon, M. Harris (1992), 729
• Osborne coll., p. 928

Other title(s)

Rose

In

• Princeton copy 2: [10 toy books by Harris and Darton].
• Princeton copy 3: Poetic garland

OCLC

317593630

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