Blunt Wilfred Editor (1 results)

Condition: Good. 1st thus. Cloth spined boards, VG. 15pp text & 16 colour plates, 16 sepia illustrations, endpapers rather foxed, edges of the boards rubbed & bumped, the plates ( made & printed by K G Lohse of Frankfurt ) in fine order. A selection of 16 of the finest plates from Spaendonck's 'Fleurs Dessinees D'Apres Nature', which was published c 1800. Blunt describes the images as '[they] may well lay claim to being the finest set of engravings of flowers ever made'. Van Spaendonck was Professor of Flower Painting at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he was a teacher of & major influence on Pierre Redouté. Spaendonck's watercolours were brilliantly interpreted in stipple by P F Le Grand. A copy of the original work ( with 21 of the original 24 plates ) made £15,400 in 1987 at the De Belder sale. Nissen 1879. 1550 grams.…