The language of flowers: : an alphabet of floral emblems. /
Bertram, James Glass,1824-1892,editor.
[London] : Thomas Nelson, London and Edinburgh.,
MDCCCXLIX. [1849]
Hand coloured engraved frontispiece.
Rare second edition of this gift book for young ladies. The work is set out in two parts, the first "Flowers, and the sentiments which they represent", the second "Sentiments, and the flowers which represent them", before concluding with "The dial of flowers" giving the times of opening and closing. The editor, James Glass Bertram (1824-1892), set up as a bookseller in Edinburgh and later an editor of The North Briton and Glasgow News.
Flower language.
Miniature books
Flower language.
England London.
Scotland Edinburgh.