A Floral Keepsake, with Thirty Engravings Elegantly Colored from Nature by Keese, John, Editor

New York: Carles Wells & Co., 1844. G, No Dust Jacket, Spine is Worn, Foxing Throughout . Drawings. New York: Carles Wells & Co G, No Dust Jacket, Spine is Worn, Foxing Throughout 1844 Writing in Ink on Front Flyleaf, Embossing & Gilt on Front & Back Covers, Gilding on Spine

New York: Leavitt & Allen, c. 1854. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Green leather covers with elegant blind embossed design surrounding embossed circle within which is red leather embossed with gilt title both front and back. Shelf wear apparent, bottom corners bumped, edge wear back cover detached, back strip missing front hinge partially detached, but holding. Thirty vividly illuminated color engravings of flowers with all but six tissues. Two frontispiece engravings: one titled 'The Floral Keepsake and Language of Flowers' with tissue. The second color engraving of a couple in a park gazing at an ostrich. If not for mild foxing of engravings, this volume would be considered Very Good Condition. Poetry, short stories about flora and horticultural descriptions within. Index 'Language of Flowers' 106 pp. Additional pictures available upon request. Full refund if not satisfied.

New York: J. C. Riker, 1847.. Hardcover. Good. Large octavo. 304pp. Contemporary light tan with three gilt fillet borders, outermost thicker than the other two. Decorative corner pieces at the angles, with another border of fleur-de-lys. Decorative gilt tooling around the portrait of Christ within a small oval, with rays radiating in all four directions. Pattern repeated on lower cover. Flat spine decorated in gilt with floral sprays, a large fleur-de-lys and banderoles. Title, printer, and place of publication gilt on spine. All edges gilt. With nine engravings, three hand-colored by J. G. Chapman. Foxon 625; Thompson, American Literary Annuals and Gift Books, pp. 100-101; Not in Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings 1825-1855.

New York: Leavitt & Allen. Decorated Cloth. Very Good Plus. N.d., Circa 1850s. 111 pp. plus the 30 hand-colored floral plates. 4to, 10.25 by 8 inches, 26 by 20 cm. Overall clean and bright, with only the most occasional of minor fox or other soil marks. Tissue guards mostly present, with a few that do have creases, tears, etc. Colored decorated front board has some fading of the gilt and some sunning along the perimeter but it remains attractive. Spine rebacked with original decorated spine almost entirely preserved and pasted on. Tight and attractive overall.