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PRÉVOST, Jean-Louis. Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits, peints d'après nature... avec un discours d'introduction sur l'usage de cette collection dans les arts et les manufactures, suivi d'un précis historique sur l'art de la broderie... par P. M. Gault-de-Saint-Germain ... avec une explication des planches par Ant.- Nic. Duchesne. Paris: Vilquin... de l'imprimerie de Gillé fils, 1805.
2° (508 x 338mm.). Half-title. 48 FINE STIPPLE-ENGRAVED PLATES, PRINTED IN COLOURS AND FINISHED BY HAND, by L.C.Ruotte (47) and Chaponnier (1) after Prévost. (Some light spotting or paper discolouration.) Contemporary French red morocco gilt, covers with decorative border built up from various elements including a black morocco inlay, flat spine divided into seven compartments by similar inlays, with black morocco lettering piece, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (slight discolouration of leather, two small scuff marks on upper cover). Provenance: French crowned 'A' (stamp on verso of title); V.A.Heck (Viennese bookseller, inscribed twice and with collation notes at end).
FIRST EDITION. A VERY FINE COPY OF ONE OF FRANCE'S GREATEST EARLY-19TH-CENTURY FLOWER BOOKS. The work was issued in 12 fascicules, with the plates in coloured or uncoloured state. 'A work of outstanding importance and interest, unlike anything published at the time... [It] was issued for the specific purpose of maintaining the great French tradition for excellence of design and draughtsmanship. And it was Prevost's hope that the... plates of flowers and fruits would furnish patterns and inspiration to designers and manufacturers of china, toiles, chintzes and other fabrics. Perhaps no other prints are more worthy of carrying on the tradition of Jean Baptiste [Monnoyer] and van Spaendonck... they possess a splendour and freshness amounting almost to fragrance' (Dunthorne p.33). Nissen 1568; Great Flower Books p.71; Dunthorne 229.
2° (508 x 338mm.). Half-title. 48 FINE STIPPLE-ENGRAVED PLATES, PRINTED IN COLOURS AND FINISHED BY HAND, by L.C.Ruotte (47) and Chaponnier (1) after Prévost. (Some light spotting or paper discolouration.) Contemporary French red morocco gilt, covers with decorative border built up from various elements including a black morocco inlay, flat spine divided into seven compartments by similar inlays, with black morocco lettering piece, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (slight discolouration of leather, two small scuff marks on upper cover). Provenance: French crowned 'A' (stamp on verso of title); V.A.Heck (Viennese bookseller, inscribed twice and with collation notes at end).
FIRST EDITION. A VERY FINE COPY OF ONE OF FRANCE'S GREATEST EARLY-19TH-CENTURY FLOWER BOOKS. The work was issued in 12 fascicules, with the plates in coloured or uncoloured state. 'A work of outstanding importance and interest, unlike anything published at the time... [It] was issued for the specific purpose of maintaining the great French tradition for excellence of design and draughtsmanship. And it was Prevost's hope that the... plates of flowers and fruits would furnish patterns and inspiration to designers and manufacturers of china, toiles, chintzes and other fabrics. Perhaps no other prints are more worthy of carrying on the tradition of Jean Baptiste [Monnoyer] and van Spaendonck... they possess a splendour and freshness amounting almost to fragrance' (Dunthorne p.33). Nissen 1568; Great Flower Books p.71; Dunthorne 229.