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WATERHOUSE, E. G.; FEINT, ADRIAN; JONES, PAUL. - Camellia Quest: With Four plates in Colour and Six in Monochrome.

Title: Camellia Quest: With Four plates in Colour and Six in Monochrome.
Description: First Limited Edition; Super Royal 4to; pp. 30, 10 pages of plates; bound in original green cloth, title lettered in dark green on spine, decoration to front board, illustrated dustjacket, with the clear glassine jacket, very good copy. Limited numbered edition of 550 copies of which 500 are for sale, signed by illustrators and author, this copy being number 416. The exquisite illustrations will delight not only camellia growers, who will value them for their accuracy of detail, but also all lovers of the beauty of this aristocratic flower, which has cast its enchantment over mankind from the ancient days when the Chinese first began to propagate it. Each picture by Paul Jones and Adrian feint is a little masterpiece of flower painting, worthy of the delicate and shapely blooms.

Keywords: painting art flowers natural history

Price: AUD 200.00 = appr. US$ 138.37 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 111156