3.     (Anonymous)   LEAF AND FLOWER PICTURES   And How To Make Them.    New York: Anson D. F. Randolph,   1857.          First edition of this illustrated manual for making dried flower arrangements, with instructions for working with leaves, flowers, mosses, grasses, lichens and sea weeds. The colored plates show various examples of this Victorian home decorative art, including a design for a fern and leaf window decoration, a basket of sea weeds and mosses, a bouquet of leaves and grasses in a moss vase, and flower and leaf wreaths. The book's anonymous author was a woman, and she has dedicated it to two little girls. The instructions are clearly addressed to children.   8vo (19.2 x 14.7 cm); 58 pp. with text figures + 8 colored lithographic plates.            Original cloth with gilt stamped title on upper cover; corners rubbed, spine ends frayed; inner hinges reinforced; text foxed, but plates relatively clean, old ink stain in upper gutter and left margin gradually disappearing in the text, not affecting text or illustrations. $175.00

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