Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. still sealed in publisher's clear plastic shrinkwrap (illustrator). First Printing of the New Edition. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. A gorgeous, pristine copy in PERFECT condition. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Still sealed in the publisher's clear plastic shrinkwrap. NOT price clipped ($65.00). Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. "First printing" is so stated on the copyright page. However this is really an enlargement of the rare 1956 first edition which sells for up to $1000 or more. It is a lavishly illustrated guide to collectible 18th- and 19th-century flower books with 51 beautiful full-page, full-color reproductions. Introduction by Handasyde Buchanan. A total of 750 important flower books are fully described in the useful bibliography (pp. 69-161). This new 1990 edition adds an appendix detailing the various printmaking processes. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in shiny gold. From the dust jacket: "GREAT FLOWER BOOKS is the most comprehensive illustrated guide to collectible colorplate flower books ever published This volume contains an incomparable selection of reproductions of botanical prints -- each a masterpiece of its genre -- that reveals the artistic and scientific scope of the Golden Age of Botanical Illustration. Its fifty-one full-page color plates include some of the most striking prints of the leading artists of the age. Here are the works of Pierre Joseph Redout� and Robert Thornton, Georg Dionysius Ehret and Jean Louis Pr�vost, Samuel Curtis, George Brookshaw, and the brothers Francis and Ferdinand Bauer. Just as important as the book's stunning visual record is its listing of more than 750 of the most desirable illustrated flower books In the three decades since this classic volume was first published, in an oversized limited edition, it has become avidly sought, and today copies are rare indeed. Now this historic work is again available, in a lavishly illustrated and expanded edition." Oversize Hardcover. 9.25" wide by 12" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. International customers please note: the cost to ship this oversize, overweight book is substantial. First Printing of the New Edition. Oversize Hardcover. New/New. Illus. by still sealed in publisher's clear plastic shrinkwrap. xii, 189pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. Seller Inventory # 017261

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Great Flower Books, 1700-1900: A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books

Sitwell, Sacheverell

Published by Brand: Atlantic Monthly Pr (1990)

ISBN 10: 0871132842 ISBN 13: 9780871132840

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Great Flower Books 1700-1900

Sitwell, Sacheverell; Blount, Wilfrid

Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, NY (1990)

ISBN 10: 0871132842 ISBN 13: 9780871132840

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. In original shrink-wrap. Foreword by S. Dillon Ripley. 51 color plates. illustrations, index. 200 pages. History and illustrators of the great florilegiums of the 18th-19th century. Extensive scholarly bibliography edited by Patrick M. Synge. Appendix on historical printing techniques. List of plates, Excellent reproductions. . Cloth. New/New. 4to. Seller Inventory # 000881

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