Dante's Garden, with Legends of the Flowers

Title

Dante's Garden, with Legends of the Flowers

Name

Cotes, Rosemary Augusta (1861-1914)

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Dante's Garden, with Legends of the Flowers

Digitised by the University of California Libraries; Beatrix Farrand Reef Point Gardens Library with Ex Libris Beatrix Jones

Description

The book examines references to plants and flowers in Dante's works, with ecclesiastical and mythical legends relating to them. With a preface by Paget Toynbee.

Type of resource

Book

Language

English

Publisher

Methuen & Co.

Place of Publication

London

Date of Publication

1888

Type of reception

Non creative

Genre of reception

Essay

Thematic study

Number of volumes

1

Other editions

1899

1904

Format

8vo.

Physical Description

110 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 18 cm.
Publisher's blue cloth binding; gilt lettering on upper board and spine; gilt top.

Circulation: advertised in

Glasgow Herald - Thursday 03 November 1898
St James's Gazette - Wednesday 16 November 1898
London Evening Standard - Wednesday 16 November 1898;
Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) - Friday 18 November 1898;

Circulation: Price

2s. 6d. net

Reception: reviewed in

Westminster Gazette - Saturday 05 November 1898

The Glasgow Herald - 9 November 1898
"But, if there is no striking congruity about this little compilation, it is pleasant and attractive reading, and will interest all who care for flowers, even if they do not known much about Dante"

Racing Illustrated - 3 December 1898
"It is so slight in form that it is in itself little more than a literary note; but it is a true note and a sweet. Miss Cotes has studied the Divina Commedia, doubtless, from many points of view, but she has also paid special attention to Dante's poetical use of flowers. [...] The book may be summed up as being not, indeed, a treasure-house but a jewel case of pretty tradition and legend connected with flowers".

Morning Post - Thursday 16 February 1899
"One can most cordially recommend this little book to all lovers of poetry and of Dante in particular".

The Bookman - September 1899
"It is a charming and unpretentious little book, attractive not merely for its fascinating subject, but by its own genuine simplicity".

Provenance: Public, Circulating or Subscription Libraries

The London Library

Current Holding Libraries

Britain

British Library
University of Birmingham Libraries
Royal Horticultural Society Libraries
University of Cambridge Libraries
University of Liverpool Library
University of Manchester Library
National Library of Scotland
University of Oxford Libraries

UCL University of London

Bookplate of H. St. John Brooks on front pastedown endpaper. Pencil inscription on front free endpaper: "Gertrude E.M. Smith. 2d"

UCL Alt. Cover

Ireland
Trinity College Dublin Library

Italy
Biblioteca Beato Pellegrino - Padova (PD)
Biblioteca Marco Besso - Roma (RM)
Biblioteca della Società romana di storia patria - Roma (RM)

Other Libraries

Standen (National Trust)

Provenance: pencil inscription on half-title.? M. Beale Xmas 1898 fr. My three boys?.