The birthday motto book, and calendar of nature.
Frederick Warne and Co Ltd..
Category
Books
Date
1871
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 3255995
Summary
Bibliographic description
128, [124] p., 1 leaf of plates : col. ill. ; 11 cm. Imperfect: wants title page and frontispiece. Likely to be this edition but perhaps slightly later. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "Flora E. Paint Guernsey 1873 [or 5?]"; includes printed announcements cut out and pasted for weddings of Samuel Theodore Mander and Flora St. Clair Paint, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 20, 1879, and Charles T. Mander to Mary Le Mesurier Paint, May 25, 1882. Various birthdays entered for family and friends. Loose insert: leaf of contemporary manuscript commencing "This is a copy of a letter written by my dear wife Jemima [Mima Mander], to Mr Wm Fleming …" On rear pastedown: printed label of: Lady Mander, … Buckingham Gate, London. Binding: publisher's red cloth, lettered & decorated in gold & black.
Makers and roles
Frederick Warne and Co Ltd.. James Ballantyne and Co