Fleurs

1881 · réf. 0005449 — Rochester NY: James Vick 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Filled throughout with images including 14 chromolithographs several portraits and a thousand cuts: chromos protected by tissue sheets. Octavo viii 112 304 113-152 305 - 392pp. half morocco marbled boards rehinged. Ex libris Effie L. Shipman probably of Girard Pennsylvania. "With pleasure I present to the world my FLORAL GUIDE for 1881 for I think it the handsomest issued during the quarter of a century of its publication. Of its value as a Guide and instructor my readers must judge. That is it prized by the lovers of Flowers and the cultivators of choice Vegetables is evident from the fact that a quarter of a million copies were called for last year ." Thus opens the first of two of the Floral Guide issues contained herewith. The January issue of VICK'S MAGAZINE has as cheery and optimistic an opening as I have ever seen. The December issue has two chromos including an excellent on of the "Golden " Pocklington Grape. Filled throughout with images including 14 chromolithographs several portraits and a thousand cuts: chromos protected by tissue sheets. James Vick hardcover