SACHEVERELL SITWELL & WILFRED BLUNT

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SACHEVERELL SITWELL & WILFRED BLUNT

Great Flower Books 1700-1900. A Bibliographical Record of two Centuries of finely-illustrated Flower Books...The Bibliography edited by Patrick M. Synge. London: Collins, 1956. 2 (457 x 283mm). Half-title, title in green and black. 36 plates, 20 coloured and printed in 8-colour-photo-litho-offset, 16 uncoloured printed in monochrome collotype, extra-illustrated with an original plate from Thomas Moore's Ferns. Original green half morocco by the Wigmore Bindery, titled in gilt on the flat spine, slipcase.

Limited edition of 2,045 copies signed by the authors, this number 112 of 295 copies printed on "Gelderland" white cartridge. The extra-illustration is particularly appropriate as an image from Henry Bradbury's nature-printed plates to Thomas Moore's Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland (London: 1855) is reproduced on the endpapers.