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P.J. Redoute : Les Roses Par P.J. Redoute, Peintre de Fleurs Dessinateur en titre de la Classe de physique de l’Institu et du Museum d’histoire naturelle, Membre de plusiers Societes savants; aved le text Par C.A. Thory, Membre de plusieurs Societes savants

C.L.F Panckoucke, Editeurs, Paris., c. 1824-1826

The original Subscriber’s parts were published within the original wrappers. Previous owner has bound them together in fine cloth with red morocco label, tooled gilt lettering, marbled free and pasted end papers. All the original wrappers are present in fine condition. , A spectacular and handsome run of the first 29 parts of this important work. A fine copy with clean and fresh plates, with no trace of browning., 8vo, Scarce First Subscriber’s Edition published in parts within original wrappers. Every part contains four plates. The first 29 parts of 40 are present here, which provides us with 116 plates of a total of 160. The last 11 parts are not present here. The superb plates are engraved by Bessa, Bessin, Chapuy, Charlin, Coutant, Langois, Lemaire, Talbot, Teillard and Victor after Redoute. , Volume : 3 volumes

“From 1817 to 1824 Redoute was producing his monumental work Les Roses, with text by Thory, and this really marks the beginning of our present appreciation of the rose. The three magnificent volumes are a delight to handle owing to their sumptuousness and spacious pages, and every plate shows a masterly hand delineating a fine and, in many examples, a recognizable rose. Les Roses was published under the patronage of Empress Joséphine. The volumes immortalize not only Redoute and Thory, but also the Empress Josephine, who had a gathering of almost every species of Rose at La Malmaison. Redoute had the task of conveying their beauties to paper.” (The Rose Book, Graham Stuart Thomas) “The plates in Les Roses have artistic value, botanical and documentary value, both for species and cultivars still surviving and for those that have disappeared.” (Sir George Taylor quoting Gisèle de la Roche in the Schutter facsimile). Les Roses was published from 1817 to 1824. In each publication, there were several plates by Redoute with commentary by Claude-Antoine Thory. The original paintings no longer exist. They were destroyed in a fire at the Library of the Louvre. The first edition of Les Roses was printed in a deluxe folio edition. It contained two sets of prints – each rose represented by both a black and white print on tan paper and a colour print on vellum. Owing to its size and technique it proved so expensive to produce that finding buyers, even amongst the nobility, proved difficult. Later editions appeared respectively in 1824 and 1828. The octavo edition was met with great success. It is estimated that 200-300 copies were produced. While it was less costly than the deluxe first edition printings, it was still a book only the privileged could afford.

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