The Flower People

Blind embossed cloth with gilt stamped cover vignette, square 12mo; 228pp. + 12 hand-colored plates, complete. Very Good with light sunning and edgewear, including bumping to boards causing rounded corners and shallow losses at the spine ends.

An innovative means of teaching botany written by Mary Peabody Mann: a young girl learns about botany through conversations with plants. Originally published in 1838 with the subtitle, "Being An Account of the Flowers by Themselves;" subsequent editions exchanged the subtitle for "A Token of Friendship." Attribution did not appear in print until the 1862 edition, "by Mrs. Horace Mann." This scarce early printing has a secondary imprint, (Boston: E. P. Peabody) and a variant frontispiece, "Flora's Dial," not seen in earlier or later printings.