The flowers of Milton
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1849
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Illustrations; Flowers; Quotations, maxims; Flowers in literature; Botanical illustration; Flowers in art
Notes: "[T]he book is made up of twenty-eight quotations from Milton's poems, each naming one or more flowers or plants. Eight of the plates illustrate Paradise Lost, while four are drawn from Paradise Regained, and sixteen from Poems for Several Occasions....A large, foliate initial letter dramatizes the symbolic nature of each flower in relation to the lines. In several of the letters, tiny figures contribute to both shape and symbol.... "--Milton and gender, "Saying it with flowers: Jane Giraud's ecofeminist Paradise Lost (1846)" by Wendy Furman-Adams and Virginia James Tufte, page 225.

The work was drawn and lithographed by Jane Elizabeth Giraud and printed by Day and Haghe, Lithographers to the Queen [Victoria].

Lithographed dedication date: Faversham, 20th June, 1849.

Imprint on title page, below illustration: Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen.

Consists of lithographed plates, bearing the initials of the artist and lithographer "J.E.G. del et lith." [that is, Jane Elizabeth Giraud]; flowers, leaves and vines by the artist float above an embellished calligraphic quote by John Milton.

"The first letter of each quoted passage is capitalized and adorned in an illuminated manuscript style, a detail which has become appreciated as one of the hallmarks of Victorian decorative book illustration and design. Miss Giraud's delicate handling of the marriage between literature and the glories of the natural world was instrumental in establishing an entire culture of poetry and prose gift books during the mid nineteenth century."--Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books.

Lib. has also by the author in Rare: The fete of the flowers. 1860, and, The flowers of Shakspeare [sic]. 1845?