Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1864. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), 96 pages. Illustrated with six tissue-guarded plates, head pieces, and historiated initials. FIRST EDITION with this title; originally published in 1863, by Edward Parrish of Philadelphia, under the title Phantom Bouquet: Skeletonizing Leaves and Seed Vessels. Producing skeletonized leaves was a fashionable Victorian pastime which involved removing chlorophyll from leaves to create intricate designs which imitated those left.....