A book of roses : With sixteen colour plates after the originals in Redouté's "Roses" / and text by J. Ramsbottom.
John Ramsbottom (1885-1974)
Category
Books
Date
1939
Materials
Place of origin
Harmondsworth
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3246686
Summary
Bibliographic description
30, [2] p., XVI p. of coloured plates : port. ; 8vo. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "With all my best wishes from Anne Rosen[?] + Rosen[?]". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's quarter grey and white paper, pink paper over boards; title printed on upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
John Ramsbottom (1885-1974), author Pierre-Joseph Redouté (St Hubert 1759 – Paris 1840), original artist