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    • Author/Creator:Campbell, Graham, Mrs., author.
    • Title:One hundred voices from nature, or, Apples of gold in a net-work of silver / by Mrs. Graham Campbell ...
    • Publication:Cheltenham : Published for the authoress ; London : Longman & Co., 1861.
    • Manufacture: London : J. Davy & Sons, printers
    • Physical Description:vi, [2], 132 pages, [2] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 18 cm
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: PR4409.C86 O54 1861
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's blind- and gold-stamped blue cloth. Binder's label: Bound by G.R. Moore, 61, St. Martins Lane. Publisher's advertisements, [2] pages at end.
    • Summary:Nature poetry. Campbell provides a "Classified index," arranging each of her 100 poems according to the Animal Kingdom (including antelope, bees, ostrich, spider and birds), Vegetable Kingdom (including cactus, flowers, mosses, grasses and misseltoe) and "Miscellaneous." This third section includes poems on the Aurora Borealis, rocks, memory, stars and "The Comet," presumably referring to a sighting by the author of the Great Comet of 1860. Includes chromoxylographed illustrations of a Goldfinch and a Guinea Fowl.
    • Variant and related titles:One hundred voices from nature
      Apples of gold in a net-work of silver
    • Format:Book
    • References:English Catalogue of books, volume 1, page 120
    • Subjects:Animals--Poetry.
      Plants--Poetry.
      Natural history--Poetry.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Women in natural history.
    • Genre/Form:Chromoxylographs.
      Publishers' bindings (Binding)
    • Also listed under:Longman & Co., publisher.
      J. Davy & Sons, printer.