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Legatura - Illustrati inglesi - Countess of Blessington (Landon, Letitia Elizabeth)
Flowers of loveliness, 1836
Estimate
€ 250 - 350
Sold
€ 320
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Information
London, The London Printing and Publishing Company, s.d. [1836]. In 2nd. Frontispiece illustrated by Thomas Uwins and engraved frontispiece, dedication to Queen Victoria, 31 full-page engravings accompanied by as many poems, marbled guard cards, partially detached frontispiece, light and sporadic halos, contemporary Victorian binding in brown leather, with embossed decoration in gold, at the corners of the relief plates with motifs stylized, in the center of the field a large embossed plaque with branches and the title, on the back title in gold repeated the stylized motifs of the corners, dentelles and marbled looks, gilded cuts, slight defects.
Specialist Notes
Elegant binding of a work that celebrates the beauty of flowers and femininity. For each flower, a poem, accompanied by delicate engravings made by some of the most refined English artists of the period, including Edmund Thomas Parris (1793-1873), Thomas Uwins (1782-1857), Kenny Meadows (1790-1874), Eliza Sharpe (1796-1874), Fanny Corbaux (1812-1883).