Jacques Bailly | Diverses fleurs mises en boucquets, Paris, circa 1670

Jacques Bailly

Diverses fleurs mises en boucquets. Paris: aux Galleries du Louvre, chez… Bailly, [no date, circa 1670]

Folio (380 x 315mm.), 12 finely etched and engraved plates of floral bouquets tied by a ribbon, one also serving as a title, window mounted, later red half morocco, spine lettered in gilt

A RARE, COMPLETE SET OF “fine plates handled in a broad and free manner” (Dunthorne).

LITERATURE:

Dunthorne 21 (first state: plate numbers with plate marks, but without the Poilly imprint, this added in pencil); Nissen BBI 67; An Oak Spring Flora 46