Cloud Crystals ; a Snow-Flake Album Collected and Edited by A Lady
Mr. J. F. Richardson. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1883. Later printing. 158 pages. Plus 27 lithographed plates and an extra lithographed title page, each with protective tissue. Small folio 7 1/2 x 10 inches. Publisher's grey cloth illustrated in gilt and maroon on front panel, and in blind on rear panel. Gilt title on spine. Wear at the extremities, previous owner bookplate on front pastedown (Lewis A. Dyer). Bright and clean throughout, a gift-worthy copy. Very Good. Cloth. [26634]
A wonderful gift book, illustrated with snow-flakes and related prose and poetry. Mr. J. F. Richardson did the lithographed plates. Louis Agassiz was shown some of the images, and sent Chickering a letter encouraging their publication, recommending the inclusion of scientific measurements and if not possible at least a statement that they were taken from Nature, not the creation of a whimsical mind. The first edition was copyrighted 1863, and did not have the author's name. Here, Mrs. Chickering's authorship has been restored.
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