Spring flowers and summer blossoms
A children's or family picture book published in London by Thomas Dean and Son in 1848, a toy-book style title for young readers. The single picture shows a tall printed page with a dense chevron zigzag ground in grey-blue, overlaid by a gold-coloured floral frame of sprigs and leaves around a central band. A designer could take the tight repeating zigzag pattern and the gilt botanical border as a model for textile, wallpaper or pattern-based surface work.
