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Creator:
Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
Title(s):
Proposals for publishing by subscription, in three volumes, historical and literary botany : containing the qualities, anecdotes, and superstitions relative to these trees, plants, and flowers, which are mentioned in sacred and profane history : the particulars of some rare and curious plants which bear the names of celebrated persons : and also of those which are used in the religious worship and civil ceremonies of divers nations : together with the devices, proverbs, &c. which derive their original from those vegetables : concluding with a romantic story, entitled Flowers ; or the artists, from the French of Madame de Genlis : with explanatory notes, &c. &c. by Eliza P. Reid.
Published/Created:
London : Messrs. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47, Paternoster Row, London, [1826?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
QK83 .R45 1826a+ Oversize
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Prospectus.
The work appears to have been first published in 1826, by C. Andrews (Windsor).
Subject Terms:
Book industries and trade -- England.
Flower language.
Plants -- Folklore.
Plants, Cultivated.
Reid, Eliza P. Historical and literary botany.
Form/Genre:
Prospectuses.
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