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Ernst Lehner
Johanna Lehner
Our Price$12.95
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486429784
Page Count: 128
Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 11
Comprehensive archive by two of the world's foremost collectors of pictorial symbols. Their pictures, rendered from rare illustrations, extend from ancient Chinese lotus buds to a basket of flowers in a 19th-century Valentine silhouette. Includes the symbolic meaning of every known species — from absinth to zinnia. Over 200 black-and-white designs and illustrations.
Unabridged republication of the work originally published by Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1960.

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