In an Old Hawaiian Garden: An Album of Hawaii's flowers / Don Blanding
Entry/Object ID
2015.7.367
Description
37 p., [16] plates : col. ill. (lithographs)
A now classic 1940s period piece-- a Hawaiian book of color floral lithographs by T.J. Mundorff. The tests is written by Don Blanding, and is signed "Aloha, Don Blanding" with a small ink bird drawing. The signature could be flat signed, though it doesn't appear to be. The third edition is the most desirable, as it was the first edition to have the text written (poems) by Blanding.
16 flowers are included with a lithograph and a brief verse for each.
Contents: Red Hibiscus -- Anthurium -- Bird of Paradise -- Torch Ginger -- Lehua Blossom -- Red Ginger -- Cattleya Orchid -- Plumeria -- White Ginger -- Wood Rose -- Heliconia -- Gardenia -- Ape -- Night Blooming Cereus -- Yellow Hibiscus -- Cup of Gold.
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
Flowers, Pictorial works, 1940s
Dimensions
Height
10-3/4 in
Book Details
Author
Don Blanding
Illustrator
Theodore J. Mundorff
Edition
Third
Publisher
R.A. Watkins
Place Published
City
Honolulu
State/Province
Hawai'i
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Date Published
1947
Binding
Binding Type
Publishers' Binding- Onlay
Binding Notes
Bound in dark blue cloth hardcovers with an oval floral lithograph onlay ringed in silver to the front cover. Printed on heavy, quality paper- the previous editions were printed on inferior wartime paper.
