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BURNE-JONES, Edward Coley (1833-98). The Flower Book, London: Henri Piazza for the Fine Art Society, 1905.
4° (303 x 105mm.), printed in red and green, 38 coloured plates after original watercolours by Burne-Jones, contemporary green morocco gilt, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (spine very lightly faded, a few light scuff marks on front cover).
NO. 241 OF 300 COPIES, initialled by the publisher. Edward Burne-Jones, most noted for his illustrations to William Morris's Kelmscott Chaucer of 1896, produced only a small number of other book illustrations. Dante Gabriel Rossetti introduced him to the work of William Blake very early on in his artistic career, and the strange, almost disembodied character of most of Blake's human figures, particularly the languid, draped female figures, had a great influence upon his own work. Such graceful, frieze-like figure compositions are evident in his Flower Book. Taylor p. 27.
4° (303 x 105mm.), printed in red and green, 38 coloured plates after original watercolours by Burne-Jones, contemporary green morocco gilt, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (spine very lightly faded, a few light scuff marks on front cover).
NO. 241 OF 300 COPIES, initialled by the publisher. Edward Burne-Jones, most noted for his illustrations to William Morris's Kelmscott Chaucer of 1896, produced only a small number of other book illustrations. Dante Gabriel Rossetti introduced him to the work of William Blake very early on in his artistic career, and the strange, almost disembodied character of most of Blake's human figures, particularly the languid, draped female figures, had a great influence upon his own work. Such graceful, frieze-like figure compositions are evident in his Flower Book. Taylor p. 27.
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