Title: The Flowers Personified: Being a Translation of Grandville's "Les Fleurs Animées" Author: Cleaveland, N., translator Place: New York Publisher: R. Martin Date: 1849 Description: Bound with: Foelix's Modern Botany For Ladies: And Ladies' Horticulture. Translated by N. Cleaveland. [2]. 385, [4], iv, [3]-152, 8 pp. 52 hand-colored steel-engraved plates, including additional title page and frontispiece. 26x17 cm. (10x6½"), publisher's brown morocco, gilt-lettered spine, front and back covers with gilt representations of the Grandville design for the title page (a leaf-clothed sprite within a wreath forming the lettering), all edges gilt. A lovely copy of this book of illustrated anthropomorphized flowers, in the publisher's gilt binding. A former owner's name is skillfully etched on the front free endpaper, matching the style of the book's color plates. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and rubbing to cloth, rubbing to extremities; browning at endpapers, scattered foxing, mostly at page edges; very good. Item number: 270587
Title: The Flowers Personified: Being a Translation of Grandville's "Les Fleurs Animées" Author: Cleaveland, N., translator Place: New York Publisher: R. Martin Date: 1849 Description: Bound with: Foelix's Modern Botany For Ladies: And Ladies' Horticulture. Translated by N. Cleaveland. [2]. 385, [4], iv, [3]-152, 8 pp. 52 hand-colored steel-engraved plates, including additional title page and frontispiece. 26x17 cm. (10x6½"), publisher's brown morocco, gilt-lettered spine, front and back covers with gilt representations of the Grandville design for the title page (a leaf-clothed sprite within a wreath forming the lettering), all edges gilt. A lovely copy of this book of illustrated anthropomorphized flowers, in the publisher's gilt binding. A former owner's name is skillfully etched on the front free endpaper, matching the style of the book's color plates. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and rubbing to cloth, rubbing to extremities; browning at endpapers, scattered foxing, mostly at page edges; very good. Item number: 270587
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