BURNE-JONES (EDWARD)The Flower Book. Reproductions of Thirty Eight Watercolour Designs, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 232 OF 300 COPIES, half-title, 38 coloured plates by Burne-Jones, text printed in red and green, 4-page facsimile of his list of flower names at end, a few light single spots to half-title and a couple of plates, contemporary dark green morocco gilt by the W.H. Smith bindery (i.e. Douglas Cockerell with "W.H.S." stamp inside lower cover), preserved in early velvetine-lined solander box, t.e.g., 4to (325 x 260mm.), Henry Piazza et Cie., for the Fine Art Society, 1905FootnotesVery good copy of Burne-Jones' Flower Book, the designs for which he worked on from 1882 until his death in 1898. "The pictures in this book are not of flowers themselves, but of subjects suggested by their names... All the pictures take the same form, a circle about six inches in diameter—a kind of magic mirror in which the vision appears—and he wished them not to be separated, because, wide as is their scope, one spirit, that of pure fantasy, unites them... In some of the pictures details remain unfinished; but both colour and design are always perfectly clear, and are so intimately characteristic of the painter that I have sometimes thought this book contains a fuller expression of himself than exists elsewhere in his work" (Georgiana Burne-Jones from the Preface).
BURNE-JONES (EDWARD)The Flower Book. Reproductions of Thirty Eight Watercolour Designs, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 232 OF 300 COPIES, half-title, 38 coloured plates by Burne-Jones, text printed in red and green, 4-page facsimile of his list of flower names at end, a few light single spots to half-title and a couple of plates, contemporary dark green morocco gilt by the W.H. Smith bindery (i.e. Douglas Cockerell with "W.H.S." stamp inside lower cover), preserved in early velvetine-lined solander box, t.e.g., 4to (325 x 260mm.), Henry Piazza et Cie., for the Fine Art Society, 1905FootnotesVery good copy of Burne-Jones' Flower Book, the designs for which he worked on from 1882 until his death in 1898. "The pictures in this book are not of flowers themselves, but of subjects suggested by their names... All the pictures take the same form, a circle about six inches in diameter—a kind of magic mirror in which the vision appears—and he wished them not to be separated, because, wide as is their scope, one spirit, that of pure fantasy, unites them... In some of the pictures details remain unfinished; but both colour and design are always perfectly clear, and are so intimately characteristic of the painter that I have sometimes thought this book contains a fuller expression of himself than exists elsewhere in his work" (Georgiana Burne-Jones from the Preface).
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