The Shadow of the Flowers: From the Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

This is not a pulp magazine cover but a cloth-bound gift-book cover from 1912, presenting selections from the verse of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907), the New England poet and longtime editor of The Atlantic Monthly. The cover bears a line-drawn botanical illustration—rose canes, briar leaves, and open five-petaled blooms rendered in spare black outline against sage-green cloth—framed by a ruled border. A short verse printed above the drawing reads: Herewith together you have flower and thorn, / Both rose and brier, for thus together grow / Bitter and sweet, but wherefore none may know. Library catalog labels are affixed in the upper left corner. The artist is unidentified. This volume predates the pulp era and belongs to the Edwardian fine-press gift-book tradition rather than adventure magazine publishing.