Flora Superba by Paul Jones (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Elephant Folio. In slipcase. . We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionally packaged and shipped promptly. P40.

Folio. Limited edition. #111 of 400 copies for sale. Numbered and signed by the artist. Original half vellum with blue buckram boards, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf. Gilt decoration of a flower on the front board. Top edge gilt. Housed in a matching blue buckram slipcase as issued. Original prospectus loosely inserted. Sixteen full colour lithographic plates with tissue guards. Fine in fine slipcase. Paul Jones (1921-1997), the highly-regarded Australian artist, painted the magnificent botanical illustrations for Flora Superba which are deliberately reminiscent of Thornton's Temple of Flora. The book was issued at £125!

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original half vellum and Persian blue buckram covered boards by Zaehnsdorf of London, gilt title lettering to the spine, top edge gilt, gilt floral vignette to the front cover. Elephant folio. 21¼'' x 15''. Hand written number 174 of 406 Limited Edition copies SIGNED by the artist to the limitation leaf 'Paul Jones'. Contains [48] pp, with 16 superb full-page tissue-guarded colour plates printed on matt coated cartridge paper with detailed description opposite each plate. Fine condition book in matching cloth slip case with white mottling to the cloth. In publisher's original card board box with printed white address label to one side being sent directly from Tryon Gallery to London art dealer 'Michael Tollemache, Tollemache Hall, Offton, Ipswich, Suffolk', the gentleman who paid £7.3 million for John James Audubon's famous book 'The Birds of America'. Heavy oversized volume weighing 6 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOTANY (Phytology).

Limited edition, no. 57 of 406 copies, signed by Jones. Folio. (48) pp. Publisher's half vellum over blue cloth boards by Zaehnsdorf, gilt lettering to the spine, top edge gilt, plain blue slipcase. 16 fine colour plates with tissues. Some mottling and wear to the slipcase otherwise sound, the book itself in excellent condition.

pp.[xviii] with 16 fine colour chromolithograph plates, each with supporting text leaf. Some spotting to verso of frontis., and to a couple of tissue guards. Two tissue guards a little creased, one with a small hole, o/w. contents fine. Original half-vellum by Zaehnsdorf with some spotting to the vellum o/w. fine. Housed in matching slipcase which is mottled and marked. Copy No. 127 from a Limited Edition of 406 copies - signed by Paul Jones. Paul Jones (1921-1997), the highly regarded Australian artist, painted the magnificent botanical illustrations for 'Flora Superba' and they are very much reminiscent of Thornton's 'Temple of Flora'. The plates were printed in multi-colour lithography at the Curwen Press.

A remarkably beautiful book by one of the most celebrated modern flower painters, printed by the Curwen Press and published in an edition of only 406 numbered and signed copies. As Sir George Taylor explains in his Note, the book began because "I had long thought that Paul Jones could paint very successfully a series of pictures in a modern version of The Temple of Flora [for an exhibition]. His pictures, which included the 'Datura', the frontispiece of this book, were greatly admired, and encouraged by this we then planned this present book." Folio, signed limited edition, original half vellum & slipcase, a near fine copy with an additional large format poster.