
Auction Closed
November 29, 03:25 PM GTNN
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Carington Bowles
Bowles' monthly florist, displaying in twelve prints a curious collects ion of the most beautiful flowers... Elegantly and accurately engraved. London: printed by Carington Bowles, 1769
Folio (469 x 294mm.), hand-coloured engraved title-page, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates, nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, sprinkled edges, some spotting, small holes at upper margins, extremities rubbed
RARE AT AUCTION. These plates are reprints in smaller form and in reverse (with one exception) of the Flowers of the Months by Furber, Cassteels and Fletcher, 1730. Occasionally butterflies, etc. have been added.
LITERATURE:
Dunthorne 46; Great Flower Books, p. 51
PROVENANCE:
"R Corbet 1915": traces of erased ownership inscription to front free endpaper
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