Sale 15BP02 | Lot 367

[PLATE BOOK-FLORA] ANDREWS, JAMES. Flora's Gems: Or Treasures of the Parterre. Twelve Bouquets, Drawn and Coloured from Nature by James Andrews. With Poetical Illustrations, by Louisa Anne Twamley

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Lot 367
[PLATE BOOK-FLORA] ANDREWS, JAMES. Floras Gems: Or Treasures of the Parterre. Twelve Bouquets, Drawn and Coloured from Nature...
... London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, [n.d. but 1830]. First edition. Original brown pictorial cloth gilt, with a design of an urn and flowers, all edges gilt. 14 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (37 x 27 cm); hand-colored half-title, 3 ff. including title, plate list and dedication, and eleven magnificent hand-colored plates protected by tissues, each with accompanying leaf of verse, ad leaf at rear (the wreath on the half-title is considered a plate, bringing the count to twelve). Spine neatly rebacked, some spotting to the plates.
Dunthorne 13; Nissen BBI 35.

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Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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