Rare Antique Mary Frances Garden Book by Jane Eayre 2024 Fryer Illus by Zwirner John Winston Phila, 1916 Child Horticulture

Antique Mary Frances Garden Book. Adventures Among the Garden People by Jane Eayre Fryer. With Illustrations by William F. Zwirner. The John . Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1916. 378 pp.

Green cloth Hardcover, with sweet front cover color pictorial label of girl in a flower garden; title in gilt on spine; Decorative floral design end-papers; Facsimile inscription on front free-endpaper reads: “For all boys and girls who love to help things grow Jane Eayre Fryer". Beautiful color frontispiece showing “A Garden which Mary Frances and Billy Planted"; title-page with decorative surround of nasturtium flowers; Chapters and pages with decorative surround designs of flowers, children, vegetables etc.; Topics include Gardens for Little Folks, By Season; Types including Window Boxes, Flowers, Vegetables, Wild Flowers, ; Garden Party, The City Garden; Includes Colorful fold-out garden cut-outs to “familiarize the child with the plants shown, and their season of bloom, and inspire a love for practical out-of-door gardening", with lists of flowers and plants on the verso; also a chapter on Paper Flower making with a pattern page.

Very good tight condition; only a little light wear to the covers and some tiny areas of spotting to back cover, barely visible; extremities and corner tips lightly rubbed; few tiny spots to end papers; *Please note - Four of the Five Garden Foldout pages and cutouts are present. Lacking is No. 5 Mary Frances' Autumn Garden. This may be a publishing omit, was never included, or removed by a former owner; all the other garden cutouts are present and uncut.

Very Rare in any condition. A charming example of 2024 a Popular American Turn-of-the-Century Children's Illustrated Book related to Gardening, Nature, Outdoor Activities and Education.