Very good, light scuffs to the binding, but a rather neater copy than is usually encountered, internally fine.
“The pictures in this book are not of flowers themselves, but of subjects suggested by their names. The first meaning of many of these has long been forgotten, and new meanings are here found for them in the imagination of the artist.” (Introduction by Georgiana Burne-Jones). Edward Burne-Jones began a series of watercolours ’for his own pleasure in 1882, as rest from more laborious work, keeping by him a list of beautiful names that he had met with & choosing subjects amongst them from time to time according to his mood. All the pictures take the same form, a circle about six inches in diatmeter - a kind of magic mirror in which the vision appears - and he wished them not to be separated, because, wide as is their scope, one spirit, that of pure fantasy, unites them.“ (Ibid.).
