London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Bards and Blossoms, published in 1877, presents a beautifully-bound and extravagantly-illustrated union of the lore, poetry, meaning, and history of flowers, as collected by Frederick Edward Hulme (1841–1909). Hulme was an esteemed artist, antiquarian, natural historian, and amateur botanist best known..... More