[Plates/Botanical Illustrations]. FLORAL BELLES: From the Green-House and Garden. Painted from Nature. By Mrs. C. M. Badger, Author of “Wild-Flowers.” NY: Charles Scribner & Company, 1867. Folio. All plates except the frontis and last plate are accounted for in the page numbering. Pagination: [title leaf], [plate list], [Contents leaf], 7-66 pp. Original full morocco with intricate gilt floral pattern on front cover and spine (in blind on rear cover). Aeg. Marbled eps. Corners of covers a little frayed, few scuff marks. Contents slightly loose, 1 plate nearly detached. Small stray red marks to title (not overlapping its type), pencilling to plate list, ink notation to margin of 1 plate. Dampstained on flyleaves and below plates’ images (noticeable toward beginning and end of volume, but visible only under close inspection closer to the middle of the volume, primarily near lower edge). Foxing to white areas of some plates (mostly near beginning and end), faint finger-soiling, 1 plate has ink notation, most plates’ images very good. 16 plates (including frontis), each with an accompanying leaf of poetry. Nissen, BBI, 56. "In 1828 [she] married the Reverend Milton Badger…they lived…in Massachusetts; New York City; and...Connecticut. Though little is known about her life other than the landmark dates of her birth, marriage and death, Mrs. Badger's fine drawings and talented hand have survived to keep her name alive" – Kramer, “Women of Flowers,” (NY: 1996). "Contains 16 very beautiful full page flower plates in many colors and shades. Each flower portrayed is also the subject for a poem which serves as text for the illustration" – Bennett, p6.