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Catalog Number |
1976.1.1592.9 |
Author / Creator |
Blanchan, Neltje |
Title |
NATURE'S GARDEN, AN AID TO KNOWLEDGE OF OUR WILD FLOWERS AND THEIR INSECT VISITORS |
Published Date |
1901 |
Publisher |
Doubleday, Page & Company |
Description of Contents |
This book by Neltje Blanchan is part of at least a 12 title series called THE NATURE LIBRARY (sometimes called the New Nature Library Series) published in several editions and added to over time by Doubleday. Series and volume numbers seem to change with each year of publication. Prominent horticulturalists, arborists, ornithologists, ichthyologists, mycologists, and lepidopterists contributed to the THE NATURE LIBRARY. This book's author, Neltje Blanchan, was both an accomplished amateur gardener and garden club lecturer as well as a well-known self-trained ornithologist. She contributed at least three titles to this series. The title of the book is self-descriptive. To its author, wild flowers and insects are inseparable, and she devotes a good bit of text to their interaction. Wild flower descriptions are organized by colour categories, and scientific names are provided. The book is beautifully illustrated with both black and white and colour plates. At the end of the book are indices of scientific names and English names. In this book by Blanchan, she shows a romantic's visual perspective of horticulture with an evocative preface (SEE PHOTO), emphasis on colour palate, and tribute to her illustrator, A. R. Dugmore. Dugmore provided colour and half-tone illustrations to this and many other books in the series. This is the same text as #1976.1.2145. Just the covers are different; same dates of publication. |
Physical Description |
Measures approximately 7 1/2" wide; 10" tall; and 1 3/4" deep. The book contains 415 pages printed on heavy cream stock. Its heft is substantial. Front and back boards are covered with fine-grained glazed green linen, bound with coarser red leather detailing. The spine is covered in that same red material; this wraps around the front and back boards, creating a binding pattern characteristic of this series. There is no printing on the front cover. The spine is printed in gilded lettering with the title, author's surname, and publisher's name, accessorized with horizontal gilded bands. Endpapers are a marbleized green and gold with cream veining. Extensively indexed and illustrated. |
Condition |
Fair |
Search Terms |
Book Non-Fiction Nature Flowers Wildflower Insect Botany Botanical Horticulture Science Garden Habitat Conservation |
Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Object Name |
Book |
Number of images |
14 |