Owen Jones at the Height of His Career

(JONES, Owen).  FRUITS FROM THE GARDEN AND FIELD.   

London: Longman, 1850. Large 8vo. Stamped, pictorial calf publisher's binding. Chromolithograph title page, table of contents page, introductory poem, and colophon, (13) pages of text and 12 additional chromolithograph plates of fruit. First edition.

A spendid book with designs and drawings by Owen Jones at the height of his career.  The text, bad poetry by M.A. Bacon, is printed throughout in gold.  The pictorial design on the cover, also by Jones, is repeated on the endpapers, printed in gold on cream colored paper.  The twelve plates of fruits range from peaches, to blackberries, grapes, cherries and strawberries.  McLean praises the work of the chromolithographer, E.L. Bateman, for the success of this book.  There is some slight browning to the text leaves, as usual, and a very few, slilght scrape marks on the fragile binding, but in general, a very good and most acceptable copy of an uncommon book, rarely seen in commerce these days.

$1,350.00