Alexis Jordan and Jules Forreau | Icones ad floram Europae, 1866-1903, 3 volumes, contemporary red half morocco

Alexis Jordan and Jules Fourreau

Icones ad floram Europae novo fundamento instaurandam spectantes. Paris: F. Savy, 1866-1903

3 volumes, folio (391 x 295mm.), 504 hand-coloured engraved plates by Delorme, J. Furreau, P. Galland and A. Mignot, original paper wrappers bound in at end of volumes 2 and 3, contemporary red half morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut, some light spotting, inkstamps on verso of some plates

This set contains the usual number of plates. Jules Pierre Fourreau (1844-1871), was a French botanist, member of the Linnaean society, alongside fellow botanist and taxonomist Alexis Jordan (1814-1897), whom Fourreau served as assistant at the start of his career. 

LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books, p. 62; Nissen BBI 1008; Sitwell and Blunt, p. 62

PROVENANCE:

The John Innes Horticultural Institution Library, stamp to front free endpaper