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

Thi✨s 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 Johnꦯ Innes Horticultural Institution Library, stamp to front free endpaper