£1,200.00
16mo. Bound in modern calf-backed boards with title in gilt on spine.Lacking original paper cover. Printed by H. Bryer for J. Harris, 16pp. With frontispiece and five further engraved plates depicting Flora (as a goddess) and her fairies, within detailed botanical scenes. A lesser-known botanical sequel to William Roscoe’s immensely successful Butterfly’s Ball (London, 1807), produced by Harris and following the goddess Flora on a May Day ‘Review, at the Royal Botanical Garden in Kew’ – in the same format – for a juvenile readership during the first decade of the nineteenth-century.The verse in this work, following the goddess Flora, its educational content, providing information of geographical origins of certain flowers,including insect eating ones, the antics of insects such as the Bee, and the finely engraved botanical scenes. [Moon 291] The pages are in very good condition clean condition, although lacking original wrappers, now protected within boards. Scarce.
Size 125 x 110mm [3 x 4.35 inches]
Possibly illustrated by Maria Flaxman (Mary Ann Flaxman 1768-1833) Painter, draughts woman, illustrator, wax-modeller. Lived mainly in London, but also in Italy and Weimar. She worked as a Governess to the Hare-Naylor family. Half-sister of sculptor John Flaxman, R.A.
Publisher: John Harris
Date: 1803
Place: London
Book ID: 60004240
