by Kate Greenaway · Warne · tapa dura · ISBN 9780723220060
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«The Language of Flowers» is Kate Greenaway's classic illustrated work on floral symbolism, published by Warne in hardback (64 pages, in English).
A nineteenth-century illustrated work featuring over two hundred plants and their symbolic meanings, such as the tulip associated with fame or the blue violet with fidelity. Kate Greenaway's plates, with flowers, children and girls, are combined with poems by Burns, Shelley and Wordsworth, showing the use of flowers as a language in the Victorian era.
Revised 1977 edition in the Warne Children's Classics series. The work was originally published in 1884.
For child and young adult readers, and for those who enjoy art, botany and floral symbolism.
Catherine Greenaway was an English Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations. She received her education in graphic design and art between 1858 and 1871 from the Finsbury School of Art, the South Kensington School of Art, the Heatherley School of Art, and the Slade School of Fine Art. She began her career designing for the burgeoning greetings card market, producing Christmas and Valentine's cards. In 1879 wood-block engraver and printer Edmund Evans printed Under the Window, an instant best-seller, which established her reputation. Her collaboration with Evans continued throughout the 1880s and 1890s.
