Great Britain, unpublished, ca. 1833-1840. Folio (28.6 x 23.2 cm). "Title page" with elaborate gilt border; 83 leaves (all versos blank, and many either of coloured paper, with blind-stamped and/or colour-printed floral borders), of which 32 with original pochoirs, with watercolour and gouache, framed. Embossed full burgundy calf. Spine with gilt borders; boards with double gilt borders; gilt-bordered rectangular panel with gilt red and orange corner-pieces. Iridescent pink endpapers. Top edge gilt.

Hidden in a beautiful, early to mid-19th-century binding we find a suite of pleasant, colourful, and detailed flower paintings (mostly). Other subjects include fruit, and a butterfly. A few paintings in shades of grey are of particular interest. Two of the latter, however, include a coloured dog. The style of the flowers and birds is distinctly oriental - one even has a bouquet in a Chinese vase. However, several others are quite British. One shows Ludlow Castle, which is in Shropshire. Several are dated on verso, e.g., 1833, 1837, 1839. The technique used seems to be pochoir, using stencils and various pigments, as promulgated by the French artist Beauvalet de Saint-Victor (1780-1857) who invented several pigments which created a "glossy" look. He publish books on artistic techniques and portfolios of various subjects such as calligraphy, Greek vases, and Japanese pottery (Lyons). Some mild wear to the board edges, a bit more so on the spine ends, but overall still very attractive. Lyons, C. (2013), Beauvalet de Saint-Victor's "Vases grecs et étrusques" (pp. 97-104 in: Excalibur: Essays on Antiquity and the History of Collecting in Honour of Arthur Macgregor.