REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph & Claude-Antoine THORY. Les Roses, Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1824 [-26], 3 volumes in one, 8° (244 x 160mm.), half title and title to volume I, 160 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Charlin, Langlois, Lemarie, and others after Redouté (lacking titles and half titles for volumes II and III, light spotting and browning affecting a few plates and some leaves of text , later boards backed in green morocco, spine gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). [Nissen BBI 1599; Dunthorne 233]
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REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph & Claude-Antoine THORY. Les Roses, Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1824 [-26], 3 volumes in one, 8° (244 x 160mm.), half title and title to volume I, 160 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, by Charlin, Langlois, Lemarie, and others after Redouté (lacking titles and half titles for volumes II and III, light spotting and browning affecting a few plates and some leaves of text , later boards backed in green morocco, spine gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). [Nissen BBI 1599; Dunthorne 233]
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The first octavo edition of the Roses, which was issued in 40 parts, each with four plates.