Redoute's Roses by Redoute, Pierre Joseph

London: Wordsworth, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 342 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with full color paintings by P.J. Redoute. Clean, tight copy. Record # 603935

-Wordsworth Editions (1990)-. First Wordsworth Editions edition 1990. 342 pages. Complete series of 167 paintings. Illustrated in colour throughout. Cloth. Very good indeed in dustjacket with a very small nick to the laminate on the spine. First published in parts between 1817 and 1824, this collection of 167 botanical prints was intended as a scientific treatise. Produced in collaboration with the botanist Claude-Antoine Thory, it achieved early fame for the beauty of the illustrations which show the glory and infinite variety of the rose. Pierre-Joseph Redoute was known in his time as "the Raphael of flowers". He was fortunate in his patronage, enjoying the favours of Queen Marie-Antoinette and the Empress Josephine, whose gardens at Malmaison inspired Redoute, though she did not live to see her protege's great work. The stipple-engraving of the original plates was a process that Redoute learnt in England in 1786 was perfectly matched to the delicacy and accuracy of the original paintings. We are… Read More

Beautiful 167 full page paintings in full color glossy paper, pp340.