Fruits and flowers : comprising twenty-four plates selected from "Choix des plus belles fleurs et des plus beaux fruits" together with the original preface by P. J. Redouté /. edited and introduced by Eva Mannering.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (St Hubert 1759 – Paris 1840)
Category
Books
Date
1955
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221521
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi p. [24] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 41cm. Price note in pencil: 10/6 vv1. Provenance: inscribed "To the Revd. John Scott Porter with the grateful thanks & compliments of the publishers. Belfast August 1850." Gilt armorial stamp on upper cover: Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis), as used by 7th Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry. Binding: twentieth-century marbled paper on boards; gold lettered, gold stamped device.
Makers and roles
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (St Hubert 1759 – Paris 1840), photographer Eva Mannering, editor