Blunt Wilfred Editor (3 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. MAYNARD Robert Ashwin 1888-1966 (illustrator). Limited Edition. A curiosity of Romantic humour. Limited first edition, in a natural Hermitage calf spine, some spotting, with gilt titling over marbled boards, edges rubbed. Signed on paste-down of lower cover Gregynog Press Bindery, limited to 275 copies. (ix), [3], 73 pp, [1]. Published on 22 November 1930. Garamond type on heavy Japanese vellum. Wood engraved opening and 13 decorated initials by Maynard, hand coloured, completed 1 July 1930, 250 copies bound in paper, printed in three colors, designed and printed at the Press. One of a cycle of tales forming the celebrated Mediĉval 'Romance of Abu Zeyd'. (308*230 mm). (Harrop 16/p191).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. MAYNARD Robert Ashwin 1888-1966 (illustrator). Limited Edition. One of the Gregynog classics Limited first edition, in a natural Hermitage calf spine with gilt titling over marbled boards, edges rubbed. Signed on paste-down of lower cover Gregynog Press Bindery, limited to 275 copies. (ix), [3], 73 pp, [1]. Published on 22 November 1930. Garamond type on heavy Japanese vellum. Wood engraved opening and 13 decorated initials by Maynard, hand coloured, completed 1 July 1930, 250 copies bound in paper, printed in three colors, designed and printed at the Press. One of a cycle of tales forming the celebrated Mediĉval 'Romance of Abu Zeyd'. (305*227 mm). (Harrop 16/p191).