Lot 51
Brookshaw, George
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£600
Description
Groups of flowers… London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Folio, 11 plates, 5 of which are hand coloured (colour plate of moss rose lacking), decoratively bound in red morocco gilt with central gilt and blind tooled diamond and butterfly design on covers and Greek key and tulip borders, edges gilt, very light foxing to endpapers and first few leaves, some slight rubbing and minor soiling to covers and spine
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire