Beschreibung:

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) and Claude-Antoine Thory (1759-1827) Les Roses peintes par P.J. Redouté... décrites par C.A. Thorry [sic.]. Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1824[-1826]. 3 volumes in one, 8° (238 x 155mm). Letterpress title, half-title, 160 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Chardin, Langlois, Lemaire and others after Redouté, 4pp. contemporary manuscript index bound at back. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine elaborately tooled in gilt and blind (joints split, extremities rubbed). Provenance : early manuscript numbering to text pages and 4pp. manuscript index in the same unidentified hand. First octavo edition of the Roses with expanded text bound from the original 40 livraisons. The present copy appears to correspond with the edition cited by Stafleu. Later issues were bound in three volumes with appropriately numbered title-pages. The success of the folio issue prompted the present octavo issue. The text was much revised and gives more information about the culture of the Rose than the first edition. According to the prospectus (not present here) this issue appeared monthly in 40 livraisons at 3fr. 50 each with each part containing four plates. The plates "réduites et gravées de nouveau par les habiles artistes, seront toutes également bien coloriées sous les yeux de M. Redouté". Dunthorne 233; Hunt Redoutéana 40; Nissen BBI 1599; Stafleu & Cowan 8749.