The parterre: : or, Beauties of Flora. / Twelve highly-finished drawings. By James Andrews. With poetical illustrations.
James Andrews (c.1801 - 1876)
Category
Books
Date
1842
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085424
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 24, [2] p., XII leaves of plates ; fol. Pencil price on front pastedown: "35/-". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full green cloth; double blind fillet (thick and thin) to form a border; gilt-stamped floral cornerpieces; gilt lettered on boards: 'Beauties of Flora' within gilt decorative frame (floral sprays); spine gilt (floral stems), gilt lettered: 'The parterre'; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
James Andrews (c.1801 - 1876), artist Louisa Ann Twamley, Mrs Charles Meredith (1812-1895), author