Pierre Joseph Redouté | Collection de beaux bouquets, circa 1850-1855

[Pierre Joseph Redouté]

Collection de beaux bouquets lithographiés par divers artistes d’apres les meilleurs peintres de fleurs. Paris: de la Rue, London: Gambart, circa 1850-1855

Folio (585 x 425mm.), 24 coloured lithographed plates, 22 after Redouté, by various lithographers including Grobon Frères and A. Prévost, 6 similar plates bound after this, possibly not part of the main work, contemporary morocco-backed boards, spine lettered “Les fleurs de Redouté”, somewhat foxed, title with stencilled number at foot, torn at foot

CONTAINING EXTREMELY RARE LITHOGRAPHS AFTER REDOUTÉ.

“There is no other bibliographical record of this book. That plates are no copies of those that appear in any other Redouté work., The copy seen is in the library of Major the Hon. Henry Broughton [i.e. this copy]” (Great Flower Books).

The only copy recorded in ABPC is a fragment containing 4 plates, from the collection of D.F. Allen (sale in our New York Rooms, 26 October 2017, lot 52). These four plates are all included in the present lot, but with different imprints.

LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books, p. 72