Great flower books 1700-1900. A bibliographical record of two centuries of finely-illustrated flower books

by Sacheverell Sitwell, Wilfrid Blunt

$950 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition · Signed

London: Collins, 1956. First edition limited to 1750 copies, this being one of 295 copies on Amstel special mould-made paper, signed by Sitwell and Blunt; large folio, pp. x, 94; 20 plates in color, 16 in black & white; original half green morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; fine copy in a slightly rubbed publisher's slipcase. With a bibliography edited by Patrick M. Synge and compiled by W.T. Stern, Sabine Wilson, and Handasyde Buchanan.

• Binding: Leather

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