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1951 Thornton's Temple of Flora
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
In the original unclipped dust wrapper.
A striking botanical volume - when first published in 1807 it was known for its impressive and distinctive plates, a beautiful work highlighted with scientific and informative descriptions of the flowers depicted.
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eleven colour plates, and twenty-two monochrome plates.
Collated, complete.
Robert John Thornton is best known for this ambitious work.
Engraved by Thomas Medland after paintings by Philip Reinagle.
Condition
In the original publisher's half cloth binding with paper to the boards, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. A little discolouration to the extremities. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light scattered spots to the endpapers and fore edge. Dust wrapper is lightly edge worn with small closed tears . Some minor marks to the wraps, including a faint ringmark to the front wrap, marks to the reverse of the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few spots to the first and last few pages.
Near Fine
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