REDOUTÉ Pierre Joseph & Claude-Antoine THORY

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REDOUTÉ Pierre Joseph & Claude-Antoine THORY
Les roses. Paris, printing house Firmin Didot, 1817-1824. 3 vol. in-folio, 27 x 36,5cm, 156 pp, [1]f., portrait, frontispiece and 56 pl. & 122 pp, [1]f., 59 pl. & 126 pp, [1]f., 54 pl. contemporary binding in red half calf with corners, spines decorated with gilt faux-nerfs and roses. First small folio edition of the most famous work on roses, the masterpiece of Redouté (1759-1840). Illustrated with a portrait of the author in black, engraved in 1811 by Charles-Simon Pradier after Baron Gérard, and 170 plates (including the frontispiece), drawn by Redouté, engraved by Charlin, Chapuy, Gouten, Bessin or Langlois, and printed in colors. Text by Claude-Antoine Thory. A nice copy. Old stains in volumeIII without affecting the plates.
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