Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs: Sixteen Plates; Rosier de Montezuma; Rosa des Champs à tiges érigées, from Les Roses

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AFTER PIERRE JOSEPH REDOUTE
BY BESSIN, CHAPUY, LANGLOIS, LEMAIRE, AND VICTOR
Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs: Sixteen Plates; Rosier de Montezuma; Rosa des Champs à tiges érigées, from Les Roses
eighteen stipple engravings in colors with hand-coloring, 1827, on laid papers, all with margins (presumably trimmed outside the platemarks), all presumably laid down to the backboards, pale light-staining, mat and time staining, the colors attenuated to varying degrees, scattered foxing and moisture staining to varying degrees, a few small losses and tears at the margin edges, other minor defects, in silvered frames with silver Eglomisé borders, two examined out of the frames
all P. approx. 13 x 10 in. (330 x 253 mm.)
all S. approx. 13 5/8 x 10 3/8 in. (346 x 263 mm.) (18)