Beschreibung:

REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (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]. First octavo edition of the Roses with expanded text bound from the original 40 livraisons. The present copy is large-paper with wide margins , and 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 edition prompted the present octavo edition. The text was much revised and gives much more information about the culture of the rose than the first edition. According to the prospectus 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 coloriaees sous les yeux de M. Redouté’. Dunthorne 233; Hunt Redoutéana 40; Nissen BBI 1599; Stafleu and Cowan 8749. 40 parts in one volume, octavo (250 x 165mm). Letterpress title, half-title, 160 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Chardin, Langlois, Lemaire and others after Redouté, 4pp. prospectus at beginning and 8pp. contemporary manuscript index bound in at end (scattered spotting mainly confined to margins of text leaves, one plate and one text leaf in the 19th livraison affected more heavily). 19th-century red half morocco over decoratively blind-stamped green cloth (one minor scuff to lower cover, extremities faintly rubbed).