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细节
PIERRE-JOSEPH REDOUT (1759-1840)
Choix des plus belles fleurs et des plus beaux fruits. Text by D.M.Guillemain. Paris: Ernest Panckoucke, [n.d. but 1833 or later]. 4 (360 x 260mm). 4 letterpress section titles, 20pp. Table.. 144 fine stipple-engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Langlois, Bessin, Chapuy and Victor after Redout. (Occasional very light spotting.) Contemporary, ?publisher's red morocco-backed boards, flat spine gilt with author and title lettered on panel delineated with a double fillet, with decorative styllised foliage tooling above and below, uncut.
AN UNSOPHISTICATED COPY OF THIS "SUPERB WORK, ONE OF THE FINEST OF ALL COLLECTIONS OF FLOWER PRINTS, SHOWING TO FULL ADVANTAGE THE BRILLIANCY OF COLOUR PRINTING" (Dunthorne). The last of the three great works published under Redout's name. The Liliaces was published between 1802 and 1816, the Roses 1817 and 1824, and finally the present work, originally issued in parts between May 1827 and June 1833. Redout had intended the work to consist of only 100 plates in 25 parts but continued to 36. This first edition was issued in quarto (as here, 12frs. per part) as well as a small number of folio copies (24frs. per part). Another edition was issued from 1829, and the present undated issue was made available from 1833 with an altered title and some additional text (the Table Alphabtique et Explicative des plantes..) by Guillemain.
The plates are presented in four groupings, as indicated by the letterpress section titles: Fruits 16 plates, Roses 16 plates, Bouquets 9 plates and Fleurs 104 plates. The splendid plates, all but 14 of them later issues with numbering added, are generally titled in French with a Latin binomial. They include what Dunthorne calls "amongst the most beautiful of all fruit prints" [Dunthorne]), roses, mixed bouquets, and fine groupings of prints of lilies, camellias, irises and peonies as well as examples of most of the more beautiful and exotic flowers available at the time. The Choix.. amply demonstrate Redout's mastery of the coloured stipple-engraving: a printing method which he introduced to France and to the representation of botanical specimens. He had reportedly learned the technique, over thirty years earlier, from Francesco Bartolozzi while visiting England and Kew Gardens with L'Hriter de Brutelle. It allowed a fineness of colour and line which previously could not be achieved using conventional hand-colouring and engraving, and, arguably, has not been matched since.
Dunthorne 235; Great Flower Books p.72; Hunt Redoutana 20; Nissen BBI 1591; Pritzel 7456; Stafleu & Cowan 8750.
Choix des plus belles fleurs et des plus beaux fruits. Text by D.M.Guillemain. Paris: Ernest Panckoucke, [n.d. but 1833 or later]. 4 (360 x 260mm). 4 letterpress section titles, 20pp. Table.. 144 fine stipple-engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Langlois, Bessin, Chapuy and Victor after Redout. (Occasional very light spotting.) Contemporary, ?publisher's red morocco-backed boards, flat spine gilt with author and title lettered on panel delineated with a double fillet, with decorative styllised foliage tooling above and below, uncut.
AN UNSOPHISTICATED COPY OF THIS "SUPERB WORK, ONE OF THE FINEST OF ALL COLLECTIONS OF FLOWER PRINTS, SHOWING TO FULL ADVANTAGE THE BRILLIANCY OF COLOUR PRINTING" (Dunthorne). The last of the three great works published under Redout's name. The Liliaces was published between 1802 and 1816, the Roses 1817 and 1824, and finally the present work, originally issued in parts between May 1827 and June 1833. Redout had intended the work to consist of only 100 plates in 25 parts but continued to 36. This first edition was issued in quarto (as here, 12frs. per part) as well as a small number of folio copies (24frs. per part). Another edition was issued from 1829, and the present undated issue was made available from 1833 with an altered title and some additional text (the Table Alphabtique et Explicative des plantes..) by Guillemain.
The plates are presented in four groupings, as indicated by the letterpress section titles: Fruits 16 plates, Roses 16 plates, Bouquets 9 plates and Fleurs 104 plates. The splendid plates, all but 14 of them later issues with numbering added, are generally titled in French with a Latin binomial. They include what Dunthorne calls "amongst the most beautiful of all fruit prints" [Dunthorne]), roses, mixed bouquets, and fine groupings of prints of lilies, camellias, irises and peonies as well as examples of most of the more beautiful and exotic flowers available at the time. The Choix.. amply demonstrate Redout's mastery of the coloured stipple-engraving: a printing method which he introduced to France and to the representation of botanical specimens. He had reportedly learned the technique, over thirty years earlier, from Francesco Bartolozzi while visiting England and Kew Gardens with L'Hriter de Brutelle. It allowed a fineness of colour and line which previously could not be achieved using conventional hand-colouring and engraving, and, arguably, has not been matched since.
Dunthorne 235; Great Flower Books p.72; Hunt Redoutana 20; Nissen BBI 1591; Pritzel 7456; Stafleu & Cowan 8750.