Mrs Delany Her Life and Her Flowers.

HAYDEN, Ruth.:

ISBN 10: 0714100986 / ISBN 13: 9780714100982

Published by London: British Museum Publications Ltd Colonnade Books, 1988

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Reprint. "At an age when most people's powers are declining, Mrs Mary Delany, one of the most remarkable personalities of the eighteenth century, was embarking on her finest work of all. Between the ages of seventy-three and eighty-two she created nearly 1000 pictures of flowers, many made from hundreds of pieces of coloured paper, and put them together 'with a precision and truth unparalleled' as Horace Walpole said. This lavishly illustrated story of her life and at includes thirty colour reproductions of her flower collages, which are now in the British Museum." 25.2cms. x 19.4cms. Pp. 176, colour portrait frontispiece + 30 further colour reproductions + many black & white illustrations throughout, signed to title page, ink date and scuffed patch to front free endpaper. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mrs Delany Her Life and Her Flowers.
• Publisher: London: British Museum Publications Ltd Colonnade Books
• Publication Date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0714100986
• ISBN 13: 9780714100982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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This book follows the development of the flower as an object of art, from India to Eastern Asia to Europe. 54 color plates and 133 black-and-white illustrations. Dust jacket edges worn. Price clipped. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Includes an exhibition handlist at the end of the volume in its own pocket. x, 150 pages. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 4to..