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The Golden Flower—Chrysanthemum

Text by: Edith Matilda Thomas (American, 1854–1938)
Text by: Celia Thaxter (American, 1835–1894)
Text by: Robert Barrett Browning (British, 1846–1912)
Illustrated by: James Callowhill (British, active in the United States, 1838–1917)
Illustrated by: Sidney Callowhill (British?, active 1890–1910)
Illustrated by: Alois Lunzer (American, born in 1840)
Illustrated by: F. Schuyler Mathews (American, 1854–1938)
Compiled by: F. Schuyler Mathews (American, 1854–1938)
Publisher: Louis Prang & Company (American, active 1860–1897)
1890
Place of Publication: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 16 color lithographs, plus photolithographs page borders and decorations
Dimensions Overall: 30.2 x 26 x 2.3 cm (11 7/8 x 10 1/4 x 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Dale S. Coleman
Accession Number2008.31
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1890

Description(Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1890) Small folio; [2 ff.] 9 pp. [22 ff.], plus 16 plates; publisher's original pictorial gilt- green- and yellow-stamped blue cloth (original blue cloth dust jacket).

Illustrations of chrysanthemum varieties.
ProvenanceJosephine Sherwood Dickerman; by inheritance to her granddaughter Miss Dale S. Coleman, 1957; by whom given to MFA, Boston. (Accession Date: February 27, 2008)