Dresser (C.) - The Art of Decorative Design, with an appendix.

C. Dresser. The Art of Decorative Design, with an appendix, giving the hours of the day at which flowers open (the floral clock); the caracteristic flowers of the months (both indiginous and cultivated), of all countries, and of the diversified soils. First edition, 8vo, xi, [1] 241 [3] pages XXVIII leaves of plates, 25cm, London: Day and Son, Lthographers too the Queen, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1862.

28 lithographs and chromolithographs by W.R. Tymms after sketches by the author. 162 figures in the text by various engravers. Full red cloth, with extensive gilt-blocked ornament to front board and spine, blind-stamped repeat of the pattern at the rear. Corners slightly worn and bumped, spine expertly relaid. A very good bright copy.