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Roses
by Redoute, Pierre-Joseph (Illustrator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Barcelona, Spain: Miller Graphics. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full white cloth with gilt lettering on spine, patterned blue and pink endpapers. Profusely illustrated with full-page color plates by P. J. Redoute. Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), was a painter and botanist from the Southern Netherlands, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "the Raphael of flowers" and has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time. . Heel of spine has light shelf-wear and bottom edges of covers are tanned, bottom tip of edges has a black mark, else tight, square and clean. Dust jacket has a small tear at the bottom edge near the spine, rear cover has a faint water stain on the bottom edge, some faint color transfer on both covers from other books, one plate has a reddish smudge on the edge. VERY GOOD+/ VERY GOOD-. . Color Plates. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17990
- Title
- Roses
- Author
- Redoute, Pierre-Joseph (Illustrator)
- Illustrator
- Pierre-Joseph Redoute
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Miller Graphics
- Place of Publication
- Barcelona, Spain
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Botanical prints;, Art;, Flowers;, Redoute;, Watercolors;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
Round Table Books, LLC lists rare, beautiful and interesting books. All books are described accurately, packed carefully and shipped promptly. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - Any book may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.
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- Cloth
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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