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The beauties of flora : with botanic and poetic illustrations, being a selection of flowers drawn from nature arranged emblematically : with directions for colouring them [volume 1]
- Author
- Date
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- 1834
- Publisher
- Wakefield: Eliza Eve Gleadall at Heath Hall
- Summary
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- Engraved title page. Introduction to v. 1 dated 1834
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- Author
- Gleadall, Eliza Eve
- Publisher
- Wakefield: Eliza Eve Gleadall at Heath Hall
- Date
- 1834
- Description of Original
- [20] leaves of plates : color Illustrations (lithographs) ; 35 cm.
- Format
- Text
- Language
- English
- The Beauties of Flora
- [Title Page]
- List of subscribers
- A list of plates and corresponding emblems
- Introduction
- Flowers
- The racemose Passionflower, Religious superstition
- The large blue Periwinkle, The pleasures of memory
- The myrtle-leaved Camellia or Japan Rose, Beauty is your only attraction; The Persian Cyclamen, Diffidence
- The sweet-scented China Rose, Infidelity; The blue Hepatica, Confidence
- The Cock's Comb Coral Tree, Singularity; The single white flowered Camellia or Japan Rose, Beauty is your only attraction
- The Helen Geranium, Preference; The Garden Wallflower, Fidelity in misfortune
- Smith's Geranium, Preference; The sweet purple and white flowered Violets, Purity of sentiment, candour, modesty & innocence
- The snow flake-leaved Narcissus, Egotism and self-love
- The red-flowered tree Rhododendron, Danger
- The noble Lady's Slipper, Resemblance
- The beautiful Cactus, Horror
- Great flowered Heath, Bright red Heath, Porcelain Heath, Solitude
- Lilies of the Valley, Purity and return of happiness; The purple Emperor Butterfly, Immortality of the soul
- The ever-blowing Rose, Beauty always new
- Barclay's Maurandia, the winged Thunbergia, Memory; Scorpion Grass, Forget me not
- Pink and scarlet Moss Rose-Buds, Beauty, love, and poetry
- The Mexican Tiger-flower, Change; The blue major Convolvulus, Night
- The white Water-Lily and yellow Nuphar, Silence
- The slender and globose Fuchsia, Taste
- Pansies, Pensees, or Heart's Ease, Thoughts-You occupy my thoughts, or Pensez à Moi
- [Cover]