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London. New York. :: The Bodley Head. The Viking Press. ,, 1950.. First Edition. Very Good +. Very Good+. Clipped ff.. Lightly rubbed boards. Octavo (6 x 8 Inches). Yellow decorated cloth with black lettering with Beardsley illustrations to boards and spine. Selection listing on rear board. [1-16] 372 pp, Color frontispiece by Max Beerbohm plus 36 plates. Compiled by Norman Denny, mirroring the tone of the original 13 volumes of The Yellow Book; a quarterly publication produced from April 1894 to 1897, a fine selection of writing and illustration from the risqué and short-lived The Yellow Book which 'could not be forgiven to be Edwardian with Victoria still on the throne.' Includes literature and prose by Henry James, William Watson, The Yellow Dwarf, Henry Harland, Henry James, Arthur Symons, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Grahame, WB Yeats, Edmund Gosse with drawings by John S. Sargent, Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Laurence Housman, Walter Crane, Walter Sickert, H. Isabel… Read More

London:: Collins,, 1950.. First edition. Near Fine. Near Fine copy in a Fine bright unclipped DJ. Faintly toned front board. Octavo (5.5 x 8 inches). Green buckram with gilt lettered spine. Pp. xiv, 178 illustrated with 26 paintings by Edward Bradbury, 11 b/w photographs by author, 4 line drawings & 4 maps. Distinguished by their enticing dust jackets colorfully illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, The New Naturalist series encouraged the study of natural history for the general reader in a most appealing format. In the spirit and tradition of the early naturalists, The New Naturalist explores and beautifully documents the natural world in an effort to promote conservation of the native landscape and wildlife of the British Isles. Cloth

London:: Wm S. Orr & Co.,, 1838.. First edition. Fine. Botanical native of South America. A fine original hand-colored engraving by F.W. Smith. Fine Condition. Octavo (6.25 x 9 in./ 15.87 x 22.86 cm). Archivally matted in Ivory Rag Mat with gilt French line decoration, sized to12 x 16 in./30.48 x 40.64 cm). Includes horticultural text. The fine hand-colored engravings and lithographs from Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants claim their honored place as highlights of Victorian botanical illustration. As the nineteenth century ushered in a profound era of plant hunting and gathering worldwide, newly discovered botanical specimens were brought to Europe for cultivation. Sir Joseph Paxton (1801- 1865) endeavored to include these fine discoveries as part of his floricultural monthly; The Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants, which also featured the favored British cultivars. Joseph Paxton was, at one time, superintendent of the gardens at Chatsworth… Read More

Paris:: Bessa,, 1836.. First edition. Fine with original hand-coloring. A fine original hand-colored stipple engraving on watermarked laid paper (Sheet: 20.32 x 27.94 cm). Engraving by Barrois after painting by Bessa. Pancrace Bessa (1772-1832) was at one time student of Van Spaendonck, the esteemed flower painter of Le Jardin du Roi, and who along with colleague Pierre Joseph Redoute (court painter to Empress Josephine and Napoleon) mastered the fine art of stipple engraving produced some of the finest botanical work of early nineteenth century France. Bessa's technical and artistic achievement evident, his finely hand-colored engravings remain coveted examples of botanical illustration. Flore des Jardiniers ( Flora of Gardeners) was Bessa's final and finest botanical work. (Great Flower Books 159, Dunthorne 33).