Sitwell (Sacheverell) & Blunt (Wilfred): GREAT FLOWER BOOKS 1700-1900, A Bibliographical Record of two Centuries of finely-illustrated Flower Books. The Bibliography edited by Patrick M. Synge

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Sitwell (Sacheverell) & Blunt (Wilfred) : GREAT FLOWER BOOKS 1700-1900, A Bibliographical Record of two Centuries of finely-illustrated Flower Books. The Bibliography edited by Patrick M. Synge

94 pages, folio (490 x 345 mm), colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates printed in 8-colour photo-litho-offset, 16 black & white plates, all plates protected by tissue guards, other facsimiles of engraved illustrations in the text, half green morocco with marbled paper boards by the Wigmore Bindery, London, number 208 of 295 numbered copies on 'Amstel' special mould-made paper and signed by the authors on the colophon page, the back is very lightly faded, top corners of the pages slightly bumped, contained in the original green cloth and marbled paper slip case which has been neatly restored at the corners

Richie A61. 'Published simultaneously with the ordinaries on 24 September 1956 at £21.00 in an edition of 295 numbered copies. Some extra copies Out of Series were made for legal deposit. This suberb folio begins with an essay by Sitwell entitled 'The Romance of the Flower Book'.

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