Mélanie de Comoléra | Collection of studies of the most beautiful flowers - fruit from nature, 1829, presentation copy

Mélanie de Comoléra

Collection of studies of the most beautiful flowers - fruit from nature. London: published by the author, 1829

PRESENTATION COPY, 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates, between 285 x 224mm. and 361 x 252mm., loose in original paper wrappers, blue cloth chemise and half blue morocco clamshell case, plates slightly creased, wrappers worn with tissue repairs to verso of spine

Mélanie de Comoléra (1789-1854), a pupil of Cornelis van Spaendonck, was a noted French flower painter both in oils and on ceramics (she worked in the employ of the Sèvres factory).