Customer Reviews

Language of Flowers (From Stencils and Notepaper to Flowers and Napkin Folding)

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This is a fun book to read if you like symbolism, and even if you don't, it's fun to read the poems in the back. In this, almost every flower, clover and herb has a meaning and just about any flower you can you'll find in here. The illustrations are sweet, and this is a great reference if you're looking for something sentimental to give a friend.

Greenaway was famous for her fanciful, humorous, delicately colored drawings of child life. This little book was originally written in 1885, and it lists over 200 plants and their meaning in alphabetical order with 85 illustrations as well as some poems in the back of the book.

The only problem I have with this book is that the printing is very small.

This book has just the right size to be perfect. It is advertised as being a reproduction of the original pocket sized books that the Regency and Victorian women carried in their purses, and it succeeds. If you are a fan of such things, this is a great book. It is small as lightweight, so you can carry it wherever you go. The only thing that I can say, it I wish it came in a more believable cover. What it has is glossy soft cover, so it cannot be passed as an original.

This is a review of the paperback version.
The book presented in the LOOK INSIDE! preview of the book, IS NOT THE SAME EDITION AS THE ONE YOU WILL GET IF YOU BUY THIS TRASH.
There are no pictures. Instead of a picture, you get a line of text that says "Image of flower", or "Image not available".
There is no formatting to the text, not so much as an indentation.
It's criminal.
If Amazon knew how bad this version of her great work actually is, they would never be selling it.
This is the worst piece of trash I ever bought on Amazon. Avoid at all costs.

The book was well described except it had a dedication on the facing page that would've made me reconsider buying it.

The Language of Flowers: A Novel
I was highly disappointed when I received this book. It had no pictures of flowers and it was in order of flowers not a meaning. I wanted a book that showed the flower and then told what it meant, love, sincerity, passion, etc.