Search Results: the poetical language of flowers or by miller thomas

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-10-15. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

BiblioLife, 2009-04-10. Paperback. Used:Good.

BiblioLife, 2009-04-10. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Hardback. New.

New.

Hardback. New.

Charles Griffin and Company N/D (Twelfth Thousand). 12TH THOUSAND, duodecimo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spine, gilt lettering & tooling with black decoration to front board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xv + 192pp + 16pp catalogue to rear, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to spine extrems, moderate scuffing & soiling to spine & boards, ex-libris plate & prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, heavy cracking to some gutters, sl staining & foxing to some pages, pressed flowers between some pages)

Stationers' Hall Court, London: Griffin, Bohn, and Company, 1861. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Good. Andrews, James. xvi, 192p. Colour plate frontispiece and seven further colour plates, tissue-guarded, all drawn and hand-coloured by James Andrews. Bound in blue publisher's cloth, blind embossed and stamped, with gilt motif and letterings (worn at edges and rubbed at rounded corners and spine tips, rubbed along spine joints). All edges gilt. Front free endpaper absent, internally neat, clean and bright. Magnificent, hand-coloured plates, all present as called for, of flowering plants.

London: David Bogue, 1847 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 5". Not Stated. The very scarce first edition of Thomas Miller's charming work 'The Poetical Language of Flowers', beautifully illustrated with hand coloured plates. The very scarce first edition of this work, in the original gilt decorated morocco binding.  Collated, illustrated with eleven hand-coloured plates. Lacking the frontispiece.A truly charming nineteenth century work in which the author Thomas Miller presents 'a resemblance between the flower and the emblem it represents' through short stories, creating 'legends' to demonstrate the way in which individual flowers represent their meanings.With the former owner's inscription of Annie Symonds to the front free endpaper.With sixteen pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.A delightful work from one of the most prolific English working-class writers of the nineteenth century.  In the original full morocco binding with pictorial gilt detailing. Boards bright.… Read More

David Bogue., 1855. 2nd. Ed.. pp.xv, 192 with fine hand-coloured frontis., and a further 7 fine hand-coloured plates. Small 8vo. Hardback. AEG. Minor spotting o/w. contents fine. Original gilt decorated beige cloth boards in thor. vg. / nr. fine condition. Plates drawn and coloured by James Andrews.