The Mary Frances Garden Book | Author Inscription | 1916 Edition | Adventures Among the Garden Book by Jane Frances Fryer

Step into a charming Edwardian-era garden through this beautifully illustrated edition of The Mary Frances Garden Book by Jane Eayre Fryer, published in 1916 by The John C. Winston Company. This imaginative guide blends practical gardening advice with whimsical storytelling, inviting young readers to learn from talking flowers, bees, and garden helpers.

• Original green cloth binding with full-color pictorial label
• Gilt spine lettering; with rubbing to gilt
• Full-color frontispiece and garden illustrations throughout by William F. Zwirner
• Intricate floral endpapers and an early 20th-century bookplate (Eleanor M. Benjamin)
• Printed garden cut-outs still bound in
• A dedication page inscribed in facsimile by Fryer: “For all boys and girls who love to help things grow.”

Light shelf wear to corners; interior is bright and clean with beautiful illustrations and decorative borders. Light bumping to spine edges. Binding is tight and square. 378pp.

Condition:
Very Good ++

Size: 6 3/4” x 9 1/2”

A beloved volume in the Mary Frances series, this title holds strong appeal for collectors of children’s literature, gardening books, and early 20th-century illustration.