58 pages and 5 pages of publisher's adverts at the end. Hand-coloured frontispiece. Rounded corners. All edges gilt. Original primrose endpapers. No inscriptions. Uniform age-toning; occasional small spots. Inner hinge split but holding firmly. 52 x 63 mm. Original red vertically ribbed cloth; upper cover with gilt emblem of floral wreath surrounding the title, within twin blind borders. Gilt slightly dull; cloth a trifle rubbed. During the Victorian age, the use of flowers as a means of covert communication, associating flowers with symbolic definitions, coincided with a growing interest in botany. The floriography craze was introduced to Europe by the Englishwoman Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), who brought it to England in 1717. Welsh, 3865 (miscatalogued by Welsh as published by Evans, should read Ewins. Welsh finds a single copy in an American trade catalogue from 1961). Not in WorldCat in this imprint. But for Duff imprint see OCLC, 1448168199, of which WorldCat locates 2 copies worldwide (British Library, and Harvard).