HENRY CURTIS (1819-1889) Beauties of the Rose, containing portraits of the principal varieties of the choicest perpetuals. With plain instructions for their cultivation. Bristol and London: John Lavars and Groombridge & Sons, 1850-1853. 2 volumes in one, 4 (260 x 205mm). Lithograph calligraphic titles printed in gold, 38 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Henry Curtis, printed by John Lavars. (A few plates with some light spotting or soiling.) Contemporary red morocco over bevelled boards by J. Bolt & Sons of Bristol, tooled in gilt to an overall Gothic-revival design, the covers with wide elaborate border of rules and roll-tools, titled in gilt on inner borders, the central panel with a sm of fleur-de-lys and vertical wavy lines, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat design made up from fleur-de-lys tools and other elements employed on the covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (joints weak, extremities slightly rubbed). A fine selection of the rose cultivars or hybrids available through a commercial nursery, finely bound by an English provincial binder. Curtis was the proprietor of the West of England Roseries, Moorend, Bristol and apparently of another nursery at Westbury-on-Trym. He appears to have drawn all of the plates from examples grown in his own nurseries, and with each gives practical advice on their cultivation based on his own experiences. James Bolt is listed in Ramsden as having worked as a binder in Bristol from 1830; he was in partnership for a number of years with William Jones Great Flower Books (1990) p.88; Nissen BBI 435; Pritzel 435.
HENRY CURTIS (1819-1889) Beauties of the Rose, containing portraits of the principal varieties of the choicest perpetuals. With plain instructions for their cultivation. Bristol and London: John Lavars and Groombridge & Sons, 1850-1853. 2 volumes in one, 4 (260 x 205mm). Lithograph calligraphic titles printed in gold, 38 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Henry Curtis, printed by John Lavars. (A few plates with some light spotting or soiling.) Contemporary red morocco over bevelled boards by J. Bolt & Sons of Bristol, tooled in gilt to an overall Gothic-revival design, the covers with wide elaborate border of rules and roll-tools, titled in gilt on inner borders, the central panel with a sm of fleur-de-lys and vertical wavy lines, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat design made up from fleur-de-lys tools and other elements employed on the covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (joints weak, extremities slightly rubbed). A fine selection of the rose cultivars or hybrids available through a commercial nursery, finely bound by an English provincial binder. Curtis was the proprietor of the West of England Roseries, Moorend, Bristol and apparently of another nursery at Westbury-on-Trym. He appears to have drawn all of the plates from examples grown in his own nurseries, and with each gives practical advice on their cultivation based on his own experiences. James Bolt is listed in Ramsden as having worked as a binder in Bristol from 1830; he was in partnership for a number of years with William Jones Great Flower Books (1990) p.88; Nissen BBI 435; Pritzel 435.
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