Shelfmark
Lm.1.03
Author
Title
Great flower books, 1700-1900 : a bibliographical record of two centuries of finely-illustrated flower books / by Sacheverell Sitwell & Wilfrid Blunt ; the bibliography edited by Patrick M. Synge.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Collins, 1956.
Physical description
x, 94 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill. (20 col.), facsims. ; 50 cm.
Note
"295 numbered copies have been printed on 'Amstel' special mould-made paper and 1750 copies on 'Gelderland White Cartridge'."--t.p. verso.
Note
"The plates have been printed in 8-colour photo-litho-offset and monochrome collotype by van Leer of Amsterdam. The text pages have been set ... and printed by Meijer of Wormerveer."--t.p. verso.
Note
Plates numbered 1-36; the coloured plates are printed as leaves and the monochrome plates are printed as pages.
Note
"The binding of the numbered copies has been executed by the Wigmore Bindery, London. The unnumbered copies have been bound by Mansells of London."--t.p. verso.
Note
Publisher's marbled paper and green cloth half-binding with pictorial dust-jacket; printed endpapers.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Notes on the flowers represented in the plates / P. M. Synge.-- The romance of the flower book / S. Sitwell.--The illustrators of the great flower books / W. Blunt.--An introduction to the bibliography / P. M. Synge.--The bibliography / W. T. Stearn, S. Wilson & H. Buchanan.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy is unnumbered copy.
Subject
Flowers Pictorial works Bibliography.
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Collins publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B52474