A seldom-seen addition

Rothschild, J. (ed.)

Les plantes a feuillage coloré. histoire - description - culture - emploi des espèces les plus remarquables pour la décoration des parcs - jardins - serres - appartements. Deuxième édition ... Nouvelle série.

Published 1872
Item ID 66652
€450.00

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Paris, J. Rothschild, 1872. 4to (26.2 x 18.5 cm). viii, 124 pp.; 60 fine chromolithographed plates, 60 text engravings. Contemporary crimson quarter calf over red pebbled cloth (by J. Huss). Spine with five raised bands. Compartment rich gilt and with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.

This is the second edition, "new series" of a work dealing with coloured leaves. Generally, flowers are more colourful than leaves, but this collection shows the exceptions to that rule. The selection is entirely arbitrary and therefore it stands apart from the first series, which is in all other respects similar. This second edition is identical to the first, a translation of Edward Joseph Lowe's "beautiful leaved plants" [(1859)-1864], which was published in 1870. Lowe's name is not in this "new series". A few tissue-guards creased, text pages age-toned but all the large, colourful plates in very good condition. Rare.

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