Flowers and Their Kindred Thoughts [Victorian Illuminated Gift Book]
by BACON, M. A. [Mary Ann]
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Architect Jones studied Islamic decoration and refined the chromolithographic process to print his great 1836-45 Alhambra himself, while illuminated gift book production helped recoup the investment. His now-classic 1856 sourcebook The Grammar of Ornament remains in print.
Edmonds & Remnants deeply embossed the covers with heated dies in a massive iron fly press, a new process patented by Frederick Leake used just into the 1860s.
Painter and garden designer Bateman was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Bacon, from a family of writers and editors, contributed literary articles to magazines and published a few volumes of verses; three were collaborations with Jones. Each flower specimen is equated with a personality aspect: "Humility," "Childhood," "Hope," etc.
Illuminator and scholar Henry Noel Humphries is credited by Ruari McLean for the gold floral designs.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7187
- Title
- Flowers and Their Kindred Thoughts [Victorian Illuminated Gift Book]
- Author
- BACON, M. A. [Mary Ann]
- Illustrator
- Edward La Trobe Bateman; Owen Jones; [Henry Noel Humphries]
- Format/Binding
- Full leather relievo
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longman & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1848
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