FLOWERS AND THEIR KINDRED THOUGHTS
JONES, OWEN
From Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 30 August 1999
From Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 30 August 1999
About this Item
Covers embossed with leaves and berries. All edges gilt. Floral leaf endpapers. Spine extremities lightly worn. Several small areas of rubbing both covers. This is a so-called "perfect binding" which is still firmly intact. A beautifully-designed book by OWEN JONES with poetry by M.A. Bacon. Color-illustrated title-page. Fourteen full-page chromolithographs of flowers on versos with poetry on the adjacent recto. Table of Contents lists them all. A crisp and clean copy of this masterpiece by Jones. It is usually found in disarray with loose pages due to the binding style. Unpaginated. Please see photos. See McLean, "Victorian Book Design, p.93 and McLean, "Victorian Publishers' Book-binding, p. 32. Size: Royal Octavo. Seller Inventory # 015401
Bibliographic Details
Title: FLOWERS AND THEIR KINDRED THOUGHTS
Publisher: Longman and Company, London
Publication Date: 1848
Binding: Full Embossed Brown Morocco
Condition: Light Cover Wear
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Edition: First Edition.
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