Les roses peintes par P. J. Redouté dessinateur de la classe de physique de l institut et du museum d histoire naturelle De plusieurs Sociétés savantes décrites par C. A. Thorry membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes

Redouté, Pierre-Joseph and Claude-Antoine Thory

Verlag: C.L.F. Panckoucke, Paris, 1824

Beschreibung

First octavo edition. Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1824[-1826] Octavo (9 1/8" x 6", 232mm x 153mm). With 160 plates stipple-engraved à la poupée and finished by hand. Bound in contemporary red sheep with a gilt rose roll border. On the spine, 4 raised bands. Title gilt to second panel. Dashed gilt roll to the head- and tail-pieces. Gilt bead-and-reel roll to the edges of the boards. Gilt floral leaf roll to the inside dentelle. End-papers tiger-marbled. All edges of the text block marbled. Boards lightly scuffed. Abrasion to the lower spine-edge of the rear turn-in. Light staining throughout. Darker foxing along the top edges of c1 and c2 of the 33rd part (text to Rosa pomponiana flore subsimplici). A lovely copy. Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) -- the "Raphael of flowers" -- found such success with the publication of Les roses (1817-1824) in folio, that he moved to publish a smaller octavo version with C. L. F. Panckoucke immediately following. It was published in forty parts of four plates, and Redouté is said to have overseen the hand-color finishing of the plates. Each plate is accompanied by a description by Claude-Antoine Thory (1757-1827), an eminent botanist and collector of roses. Les roses is Redouté's second work and is considered his finest. The owner of this binding was clearly passionate about roses, both because the plates are organized by species rather than livraison-order, and because the binding is lush with rose motifs. The color of the binding is no doubt an homage to red roses, as are the second and second-to-last end papers as they are dyed pink (rose in French). Catalogue Redoutéana 40; Nissen 1599; Pritzel 7455; Sitwell p. 128. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LM0003

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Les roses peintes par P. J. Redouté ...

Verlag: C.L.F. Panckoucke, Paris

Erscheinungsdatum: 1824

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near fine

Auflage: First.