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Suggestions in Floral Design 1898

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Suggestions in Floral Design 1898
<B>F[rederick] Edward Hulme. </B></I><B><I>Suggestions in Floral Design</B></I></B></I><B>.</B></I> Fifty-two Coloured Plates. London, Paris & New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin, [n.d., 1878?]. <BR>Large quarto (14.125 x 10.9375 inches). 52 pages. Title printed in red and black. Fifty-two chromolithographed plates, including added title and end leaf, with guard sheets. The plates are beautifully printed in gold and colors by Dupuy & Fils, Litho., Paris.<BR><BR>Original olive fine diagonally-ribbed cloth over bevelled boards with front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black, spine decoratively stamped in gilt and black and lettered in gilt, and back cover decoratively stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Black coated endpapers. Extremities lightly rubbed, with cloth beginning to fray in a few places, lower board edges lightly bumped, a few small areas of discoloration to cloth on rear cover. The hinges are cracked and a few leaves are loose, but the plates are generally clean and bright, with only minimal foxing or occasional thumb-soiling. A few tissue guards with small tears.<BR> <BR>"The greater number of the illustrations have already been privately used as indications to pupils of what we consider correct treatments of floral forms, and it is in the hope that they may be thus useful to a larger circle that they are now published. To this end they have all been kept bold in form, simple in colour, and of a size that should present no difficulties to any student desirous of reproducing them; and we may further mention that none of the suggestions are mere reproductions or modifications of designs that have already done service commercially. All have been prepared for the special purpose of this work" (p. [3]).<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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