Paris: Garnier Frères, 1867. 2 quarto volumes, each 10.5'' x 6.75''. Original quarter green goatskin, green cloth boards, raised bands, gilt-ruled spines and red and brown goatskin spine labels. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Text by Alph. Karr, Taxile Delord, and Le Cte. Foelix. Half titles present, additional pink-printed engraved title pages. Index at rear of both volumes and supplements BOTANIQUE DES DAMES and HORTICULTURE DES DAMES at rear of volume II. Illustrated with 2 hand-colored engraved title pages (after the printed titles) and 50 full-page hand-colored plates of anthropomorphized flowers, one additional full-page plate before HORTICULTURE DES DAMES, and black-and-white pictorial initials and vignettes throughout. 339, [5]; 324, [2] pages. Faint rubbing and wear to bindings, with rear joint of volume II a bit tender. Vol I free endpaper carefully trimmed at fore-edge, with some chipping to following fly leaf; a section or two of wear on endpapers; text blocks generally clean with occasional instances of foxing and a faint dampstain to the top corner only of first few leaves of volume I.

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