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Macmillan, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1952. No Edition Remarks. 314 pages. Wrapped pictorial dust jacket over purple cloth with gilt lettering. Minor foxing and noticeable tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking to gutters with netting slightly exposed but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

London: Macmillan and Co.. 1st printing (1952). 314pp. VG/VG copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1952.

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1952. . First edition, first impression; 8vo, (22.3 x 15 cm); half-title, scattered light foxing; publisher's mauve cloth, gilt lettering to spine mauve topstain, unclipped pictorial dustjacket, dustjacket slightly worn and marked, overall a very good copy; [x], 314pp. A very good first edition of A Book of Flowers - an anthology of praises of the flower, compiled by Edith Sitwell, featuring works by poets, gardeners, philosophers, and even a saint. This book contains not only descriptions and praises of the flower, but also recipes for making rose-water, rose-honey, violet-honey, and violet-syrup. These recipes, some from as early as the fourteenth century, appeared in print for the first time in this volume.