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Twelve months of flowers

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Description: This is a first edition of Furber's "calendar of flowers", issued as a lavish catalogue of seeds available from his nursery in Kensington. There is a hand-colored plate for each month, in which are arranged the flowers that will bloom in that month. Each flower is numbered against a key at the bottom of the plate. The first plate is a list of subscribers decorated by a border of flowers. --cf. Dealer's description
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1730
Call number: 498709
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Play of the Month Club subscribers

Manuscripts

Contains index of Play of the Month Club subscribers, in alphabetical order.

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Library index

Manuscripts

Contains indexes of correspondence, plays at various venues, photographs, and Play of the Month Club subscribers. Also contains Play of the Month Club ticket books from 1953 and 1954.

mssPlayhouse

One painting book, ca. 1935, entitled Flowers, A Paint Book, illustrated by Pru Herric, published by Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin. This book is composed of 32 unnumbered pages of outline drawings of flowers. The front cover illustration is of flowers within a white trellis pattern. The back cover is the same pattern, but with different flowers. Each of the pages for coloring features a single type of flower that is identified by its common name; color suggestions are below the name of the flower. Some of the images have been colored in with chalk.

ephKAEE

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Flowers from an Indian garden

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First series of a botanical work on flowers in India. The work opens with a chromolithographed prefatory poem titled "Help us!", followed by 11 chromolithographed plates faced by an accompanying leaf of chromolithographed verses. The leaves of verses contain poetic excerpts from Dicken's Household Words, The Language of Flowers, Shakespeare, and the Botanical Magazine, and give details of the habit and habitats of some of the illustrated flowers.

657044

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(13) PASSENGER STATISTICS NO.1

Manuscripts

Month of July 1887 through July 1888. Special printed form filled out in manuscript. Each page is for a different station for a month. Shows number of passengers from each station to each other station on the V. & T. and C. & C. This is a companion record to V. & T. R. R. record, item 5.

NR 12

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The twelve months

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A portfolio of chromolithograph prints depicting birds and flora from the twelve months of the year.

645920

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