floral birthday book
Subtitle: flowers and their emblems, with appropriate selections from the poets
By: with 368 illustrations engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.
Contributors: Foster, William, 1853-1924; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 (printer)
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1876
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Birthday books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Floral birthday book :; Floral birthday book :
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Added colour wood-engraved illustrated t.p.

T.p. and text printed within thin black rule border.

Text is interleaved with thin blank pages lined in grey and divided into three sections by red rule lines.  Sections correspond to three days of the month illustrated on the facing page with wood-engraved floral images and poetry printed in letterpress.

Preliminary wood-engraved plate and added t.p. are signed: "W. Foster".  Wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.

MASS copy: Bound in teal-green fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover with oval paper onlay chromolithographed with an illustration similar to those within the text.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With yellow painted endpapers.  With presentation inscription dated 1889.  With the remnants of a small portrait photograph pasted to upper paste-down endpaper.  Includes 12 blank lined pages of paper loosely stitched and pasted behind lower endpapers to create a hand-written index of names.