FLOWER FANCIES by 580BAILEY, Alice Ward

Morse, Eleanor Ecob. (PRANG-LITHOGRAPHER) BAILEY, Alice Ward. FLOWER FANCIES. Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1889. 4to. Chromo-color pictorial padded cloth over board, all edges gilt. Pictorial chromolithographed title page, 15 full-page chromolithographed illustrations of flowers with text and tissue guards. Scarce item with only 13 copies on OCLC. Lush illustrations of flowers accompany poetry. Odes to daffodils, sweet peas, pansies, crocuses, poppies, lilac, roses, and forget-me-nots. Late Victorian gift-style book of poetry. Printed on recto only on thick stock; brown patterned ribbed stiff endpapers, light scuffing to edges, lacking one tissue guard; near fine. (40601).