Thornton's Temple of Flora. With Plates faithfully reproduced from the Original Engravings and the Work Described By Geoffrey Grigson with Bibliographical Notes By Handasyde Buchanan.

Thornton, Robert John

Published by Collins, London, 1951

About this Item

Finely illustrated with 12 colour plates and 21 black and white collotype plates, all with tissue guards, folio pp viii, 20, half brown morocco and gray boards, very slightly marked, the morocco lightly rubbed at the fore-edge. The endpapers are a little foxed, which also affect the first preliminary pages. Number 49 of a limited edition of 250 copies, specially bound and on hand-made paper; signed by the three contributors - Geoffrey Grigson, Handasyde Buchanan and William Thomas Stearn. [Very heavy - extra postage will be required].

Seller Inventory # 016364

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thornton's Temple of Flora. With Plates faithfully reproduced from the Original Engravings and the Work Described By Geoffrey Grigson with Bibliographical Notes By Handasyde Buchanan.
• Publisher: Collins, London
• Publication Date: 1951
• Binding: Half-Leather
• Condition: Very Good
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  • Botanical Illustration
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