Great flower books, 1700-1900 : a bibliographical record of two centuries of finely-illustrated flower books / by Sacheverell Sitwell & Wilfrid Blunt ; the bibliography edited by Patrick M. Synge
1956, 1st edition. London : Collins. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss and taped) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #433670
Physical description; x, 94 pages, 36 leaves of plates illustrations (some color), facsimiles 50 cm. Contents; Notes on the flowers represented in the plates, by P.M. Synge. -- The romance of the flower book, by S. Sitwell. -- The illustrators of the great flower books, by W. Blunt. -- An introduction to the bibliography, by P.M. Synge. -- The bibliography, by W.T. Stearn, S. Wilson & H. Buchanan. Subjects; Flowers Pictorial works ; Bibliography. Flower (plant material). Flowers in art Bibliography. Illustration of books Bibliography. Flowers ; Pictorial works ; Bibliography. Flower painting.
Price: €195.00