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1990 Great Flower Books 1700-1900: A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
Republished in 1990 to make the book available to private collectors in good condition. Illustrated with fifty-two plates, one is monochrome, the rest are in colour. Collated complete. The book is an illustrated guide to colour plate flower books of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to celebrate the Golden Age of botanical illustration. Includes a foreword by Dillon Ripley. Includes a listing of over 750 illustrated flower books. This book is a must-have for collectors, dealers and auction houses. With a detailed bibliography included. Written by Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, an English writer, particularly on baroque architecture, and an art and music critic, and Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, an English art teacher, writer, artist and a curator.
Condition
In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout.
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