THE ROMANCE OF NATURE; OR, THE POETICAL LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. de THOMAS MILLER; EDITED BY MRS. E. OAKES SMITH - 1860

NEW YORK: J. C. RIKER, 1860 RARE BOOK, CIRCA 1860- NO DATE LISTED. HARD COVER, GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND BACK, OUTSIDE OF SPINE MISSING, PAGES HAVE GOLD EDGES. BEAUTIFUL COLOR PLATES THROUGHOUT, LIGHT FOXING, TIGHT AND CLEAN. VERY DETAILED PRETTY ARTWORK. HEAVY PAGES, AMERICAN PREFACE, ENGLISH PREFACE, TIME AND THE FLOWERS, LOVE AND THE FLOWERS, FLOWERS OF LOVE, FORGET ME NOT, DAISIES AND MANY OTHER SECTIONS. WONDERFUL INDEX AND FLORAL EMBLEM SECTION. FOR THE LOVER OF FLOWERS AND ARTWORK. Elizabeth Oakes Smith (August 12, 1806 – November 16, 1893) was a poet, fiction writer, editor, lecturer, and women's rights activist whose career spanned six decades, from the 1830s to the 1880s. Most well-known at the start of her professional career for her poem "The Sinless Child" which appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1842, her reputation today rests on her feminist writings, including "Woman and Her Needs", a series of essays published in the New York Tribune between 1850 and 1851 that argued for women's spiritual and intellectual capacities as well as women's equal rights to political and economic opportunities, including rights of franchise and higher education. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.