While she was a student at Amherst Academy, a young Emily Dickinson pressed 424 plant specimens onto 66 pages of an album. This book was her personal herbarium and her fondness for this hobby was reflected in letters to friends, some of whom sent her plants from exotic locales. Harvard’s Houghton Library owns this fragile treasure in addition to some loose specimens and a smaller herbarium of 23 plants. In September, the Harvard University Press published a fascimile edition of the large album. The pages are in full color and at full size. It’s a pricey $125, perhaps for that cross-section of serious Dickinson fans and botanists.