Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries; Their History, Makers and Uses, with a Catalogue Raisonne of the Works in Which They are Found
by Dunthorne, Gordon (M.A. Oxon)
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About This Item
Washingon, DC: By the Author, 1938. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 750 copies which contains a special colour plate listing subscribers' names. The present copy if from an original subscriber with her card laid in. 275pp., The illustrations are printed by the deeptone process. The first part of the book introduces the flowers. The second part of the volume is a complete list of the works of the 18th and early 19th centuries which contain flower prints. Full descriptions of the prints, names of artists, engravers and publishers are given together with other details and indices. Through this work, it will now be [possible to identify nearly all flower and fruit prints of this period and trace their provenance. Bound in a coated linen cloth over beveled boards, central green leather pastedown lettered and decorated in gilt, leather spine label gilt, There is a stain to spine, housed within green cloth covered slipcase with soft inside lining for protection.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021547
- Title
- Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries; Their History, Makers and Uses, with a Catalogue Raisonne of the Works in Which They are Found
- Author
- Dunthorne, Gordon (M.A. Oxon)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- By the Author
- Place of Publication
- Washingon, DC
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Flowers Botanicals Color Plates Fruit
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...