Search Results: the phantom bouquet a popular treatise by parrish edward

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1864. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo. 47pp. Original gilt stamped cloth, wears to spine ends. Early book label of Lutheran Board Publication Philadelphia. 5 plates. Contemporary two page manuscript on skeletonizing leaves laid in. Later stamp of Dover Archives. A surprisingly scarce little book, perhaps because of a delayed publication issue. According to the preface: "an article which is so little in accordance with the tone of the current American literature during the past eventful year" (the first year of the American Civil War).