Ventenat. Jardin de la Malmaison. An XI-1803-[1805]

Property from the Library at Spetchley Park

VENTENAT, ETIENNE-PIERRE

Jardin de la Malmaison. Paris: Crapelet for the author, An XI-1803-[1805]

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes in 1, folio (520 x 338mm.), half-titles, dedication leaf, 120 colour-printed stipple engravings, finished by hand, after Pierre-Etienne Redouté by J. B. Dien, P. F. Legrand, L. J. Allais, and others, index and errata leaf at end, later maroon morocco-backed cloth, occasional spotting, some plates cropped (mostly imprints), slight wear to extremities

IMPORTANT MONUMENT OF BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATIONS.

A fine work with 120 handsomely coloured plates, demonstrating the highest peak of Redouté's career.

LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books 147; Hunt/Redouteana 12; Nissen, BBI 2049; Stafleu & Cowan 16.007; cf. Oak Spring Flora 61

PROVENANCE:

Ellen Ann Willmott (1858–1934), Warley Place, Essex; posthumous sale in these rooms, 1-3 April 1935, lot 372