Lawrance (Mary) A Collection of Roses from Nature, engraved title and dedication, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 90 hand-coloured plates by Mary Lawrance, 42 plates with holograph manuscript, or part manuscript titles, 27 of these signed by Mary Lawrence tissue guards, 211 page index, bound in at end, printed recto only, light browning to frontispiece and title, contemporary red straight-grained morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, covers with wide decorative border made up from various rolls and fillets and single rose spray at inner corners, all surrounding a central lozenge enclosing a large bowl of fruit and flowers tool, the spine into seven compartments with double raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with a repeat pattern centering on a single rose spray tool, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, rubbed, folio (487 by 390mm.), London, Miss Lawrance, [1796-1799]
Lawrance (Mary) A Collection of Roses from Nature, engraved title and dedication, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 90 hand-coloured plates by Mary Lawrance, 42 plates with holograph manuscript, or part manuscript titles, 27 of these signed by Mary Lawrence tissue guards, 211 page index, bound in at end, printed recto only, light browning to frontispiece and title, contemporary red straight-grained morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, covers with wide decorative border made up from various rolls and fillets and single rose spray at inner corners, all surrounding a central lozenge enclosing a large bowl of fruit and flowers tool, the spine into seven compartments with double raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with a repeat pattern centering on a single rose spray tool, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, rubbed, folio (487 by 390mm.), London, Miss Lawrance, [1796-1799]
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