7th Dec, 2023 10:00
Fine & Decorative Arts
290
The Highgrove Florilegium, watercolours depicting plants grown in the Garden at Highgrove, 2008-09, in two volumes, The Princes' Charities Foundation/Addison Publications Ltd, 124 fine colour facsimile plates by Anne O'Connor, Beverly Allen, Josephine Elwes, Jenny Phillips, Sally Grosthwaite, Jill Coombs and many others, each signed with embossed blindstamp to lower outer corner giving the copyright, and the plate and edition number in pencil, the plates printed on American Cotton paper, the text on Somerset Bookwove, text decorations and endpaper designs by Richard Shirley Smith, original dark red quarter goatskin gilt, by Stephen Conway, after a design by James Brockman, with gilt hand-tooling by James and Stuart Brockman, dark red goatskin fore-edges, atlas folio, 66.5 by 48cm, limited edition No.69/175, signed in ink by Prince Charles to the preface page of the first volume, each contained in Liz Brown bespoke felt outer covers (2)
Sold for £2,400
The Highgrove Florilegium, watercolours depicting plants grown in the Garden at Highgrove, 2008-09, in two volumes, The Princes' Charities Foundation/Addison Publications Ltd, 124 fine colour facsimile plates by Anne O'Connor, Beverly Allen, Josephine Elwes, Jenny Phillips, Sally Grosthwaite, Jill Coombs and many others, each signed with embossed blindstamp to lower outer corner giving the copyright, and the plate and edition number in pencil, the plates printed on American Cotton paper, the text on Somerset Bookwove, text decorations and endpaper designs by Richard Shirley Smith, original dark red quarter goatskin gilt, by Stephen Conway, after a design by James Brockman, with gilt hand-tooling by James and Stuart Brockman, dark red goatskin fore-edges, atlas folio, 66.5 by 48cm, limited edition No.69/175, signed in ink by Prince Charles to the preface page of the first volume, each contained in Liz Brown bespoke felt outer covers (2)
Auction: Fine & Decorative Arts, 7th Dec, 2023
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