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"The authors have named this work the "New Floral Games", because it must in reality be the source of innumerable and delicious recreations of which the flowers will be the cause." -
Eugène Nus And Antony Méray - The New Floral Games Principles Of Flower Analogy - SD (1852?)
Good condition of the binding, work in its original red half-leather, good condition of the covers and the spine, rubbing from use, rubbed corners and crowns, spine with false bands decorated, gilt title -
Good interior condition, some scattered foxing and old waterstaining on the frontispiece, pretty bands, beautiful initials, prospectus of the work in fine, charming engravings by Ch. Geoffroy out of text including frontispiece, marbled flyleaves -
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