Two Antique Books; The Ladies Flora Containing a Dictionary and Glossary of Botanical Names by Richard La Galienne, New York: T.L. Maganos, ND, 8vo. presumed first edition, hard cover faded (was blue) with embossed front and back boards, with large leaf in orange color with gilt, gilt ruled edges, head and tail chipped, titled page detached yet present. Eighteen hand colored plates accompany this in-depth study of floral lore, literature, cultivation & home/medical use plates with tissue guards. Condition: pages and plates toned, good to fair condition for age. New You: Mitchell Kennerley, 1908. Landscape oblong quarto (12mo) hardcover, first edition. Original blue cloth spine, blue boards, paper spine label, original parchment vellum dust jacket in poor condition with toning, chips and losses, interior clean and bright, board edges with toning and wear, deckled paper edges toned. A thirty-seven quatrain poem, written in the style of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, which Le Gallienne translated years earlier (Le Gallienne called him the great thinker/drinker).