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INFANT'S CABINET OF FLOWERS
The Infant's Cabinet of Flowers, J. Marshall, 21 April, 1801

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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INFANT'S CABINET OF FLOWERS

The Infant's Cabinet of Flowers, 28 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates, each on stiff card (childish pencil annotations on verso of several), loose as issued in original box, the hand-coloured engraved pictorial title label laid on sliding lid (darkened, slightly scuffed), 12mo (75 x 48mm.), J. Marshall, 21 April, 1801

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SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF THE "FLOWER CARDS" to J. Marshall's Infant Cabinet, without the rarely found descriptive text volume. See illustration at p.18.

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