THE FLORAL FORTUNE TELLER: A GAME FOR THE SEASON OF FLOWERS
Book Details + Condition: A. Tompkins (Boston), 1847 (copyrighted the year prior). Small hardcover measuring 4.75" x 3". 158 pages with index. Embossed red boards with gilt design on front. Scarce. Sarah Carter Edgarton, author of several publications on the subject of flowers, applied her expertise to the 19th-century popularity of fortune-telling books by pairing flowers with quotations from popular verse to create this charming fortune-telling game. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; some wear to boards and spine, with darkening present; interior is clean and free of markings, save periodic foxing to pages.
