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According To Season

A Celebration Of Nature

By

Mrs. William Starr Dana

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Read A Quick Biography About The Author Below And To Read More Go To Wikipedia.com:

Frances Theodora Parsons (née Smith, 1861 - 1952), usually writing as Mrs. William Starr Dana was an American botanist and author active in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her first husband, William Starr Dana (marriage 20 May 1884, died 1 January 1890), was a naval officer. She later married (8 February 1896) James Russell Parsons, a politician in the state of New York and later a diplomat. They had a son, Russell. She was an active supporter of the Republican Party as well as the Progressive Party. She was also an advocate of women's suffrage. Her most important botanical work was How to Know the Wild Flowers (1893), the first field guide to North American wildflowers. It was something of a sensation, the first printing selling out in five days. How to Know the Wild Flowers garnered favorable responses from Theodore Roosevelt and Rudyard Kipling, among others. The work went through several editions in Parsons's lifetime and has remained in print into the 21st century.

Published works by Frances Theodora Parsons (writing as Mrs. William Starr Dana) include:

• How to Know the Wild Flowers (1893). New York: Charles Scribner's Son's. Illustrations by Marion Satterlee.
• Plants and their Children (1896)
• How to Know the Ferns (1899). Author listed as Frances Theodora Parsons. Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Alice Josephine Smith. The first printing by Toronto: The Publisher's Syndicate Limited; at least seven more printings, 1899-1925 by New York: Charles Scribner's Son's; at least two printings by New York: Dover Books; and one printing, 2005, by Kessinger Publishing.
• According To Season (1902)
• Perchance Some Day (1951) autobiography, privately printed.

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This Book Is A 1990 First Edition Thus Published By Houghton Mifflin Company After The Original 1924 Reprint Edition Published By Charles Scribner's Sons

With 16 Original Color Plates By Elsie Louise Shaw

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The Book Is Stunning In Fine, Still Crisp Condition, Only A Sunned Spine, Housed In A Near Fine Paste-on Pictorial Slipcase 

Bound In Full Green Cloth Hardcover

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Elaborate Margaret Armstrong Gilt Cover Design Lettered By Gilt

Green Paste-downs And Endpapers

Exquisite Colour Plates Blank On The Reverse

Complete In 175 Numbered Pages

8vo

Complete Numberline On The Copyright Page

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See The Photos Below For The Complete Contents And Complete List Of Plates

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Margaret Armstrong Initials At The Lower Front Cover

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A Lightly Rubbed ,Near Fine Couple Of Scuff Marks, Clean Entrance And Interior Slipcase

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No Previous Owner Markings, No Writing In Book And Not Ex-Library

Fine, Still Crisp Condition In A Near Fine Clean Entrance And Interior Slipcase

Just Fine

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