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Published by The Cresset Press, London, 1928 & 1929, both limited editions of 550 copies. (Numbers 164 and 473). Leather spines, marbled paper boards . Gilt lettering to spines. Printed on mould made paper. Oblong format, 7.5ins x 11.5ins. Volume one (""Contayninge a very lively and true Description of the Flowers of the Springe"") unpaginated. Comprises half title, limitation page, illustrated title page, text title page, poem by Thomas Wood, 9pp preface by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, followed by 41 full page drawings of flowers each faced by a page of text. Volume two (""Contayning a very lively and true Description of the Flowers of the Summer, Autumn and Winter"") unpaginated. Comprises, half title, limitation page, illustrated title page, text title page,10pp preface by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, note on the translation by Spencer Savage, text title page for Summer, full page illustration, followed by 20 full page drawings each faced by page of text, Autumn… Read More