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Flowers and Their Kindred Thoughts [Victorian Illuminated Gift Book]

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Flowers and Their Kindred Thoughts [Victorian Illuminated Gift Book]

Name: Flowers and Their Kindred Thoughts [Victorian Illuminated Gift Book]
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Author: BACON, M. A. [Mary Ann]

by BACON, M. A. [Mary Ann]

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London: Longman & Co, 1848. First Edition. Full leather relievo. Very Good. Edward La Trobe Bateman; Owen Jones; [Henry Noel Humphries]. 4to. Pp. [34]. Chromolithographed Bateman drawings, gold lettering and decorations by Jones and/or Humphries. Full calf relievo by Remnant Edmonds & Remnants: blind-stamped titles and ivy decorations, beveled boards, gilt returns, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated in gold, stout leaves. Colophon states "Printed in colors at 9 Argyll Place," the home of Jones. Edges and spine ends minimally rubbed, moderate foxing to outer leaves and minimal elsewhere, fragile original perfect binding skillfully re-set with thread, very short closed tears and crimps to first leaves, "Timidity" plate lightly offset to facing text. Gift inscription in ink fills the blank preliminary: "Phoebe Woodward presented by her sister Sarah [...] July 19th 1851." A splendid, unusually well-preserved example of Victorian book tastes and innovations.

Architect Jones studied Islamic decoration and refined the chromolithographic process to print his great 1836-45 Alhambra himself, while illuminated gift book production helped recoup the investment. His now-classic 1856 sourcebook The Grammar of Ornament remains in print.

Edmonds & Remnants deeply embossed the covers with heated dies in a massive iron fly press, a new process patented by Frederick Leake used just into the 1860s.

Painter and garden designer Bateman was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Bacon, from a family of writers and editors, contributed literary articles to magazines and published a few volumes of verses; three were collaborations with Jones. Each flower specimen is equated with a personality aspect: "Humility," "Childhood," "Hope," etc.

Illuminator and scholar Henry Noel Humphries is credited by Ruari McLean for the gold floral designs.

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Bookseller: Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7187
Title: Flowers and Their Kindred Thoughts [Victorian Illuminated Gift Book]
Author: BACON, M. A. [Mary Ann]
Illustrator: Edward La Trobe Bateman; Owen Jones; [Henry Noel Humphries]
Format/Binding: Full leather relievo
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Longman & Co
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1848

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