BACON (FRANCIS) Of Gardens. An Essay, ILLUMINATED BY ALLAN F. VIGERS, Privately Printed at the C...

BACON (FRANCIS) Of Gardens. An Essay, ILLUMINATED BY ALLAN F. VIGERS, including an illustration of three parrots and flowers on the title-page; a bird nesting amongst flowers on the verso; opening text leaf with wide border of flowers, a bird and helmet with an owl perched on opening initial 'G' in liquid gold; vignette on colophon of a toucan and flowers; illuminated initials, floral decorations and rubrication marks throughout, signed 'A.V.F 1903' on colophon, brown crushed morocco gilt BY COBDEN-SANDERSON AT THE DOVES PRESS BINDERY (signed 'The Doves Bindery. C.S. 1903' on the lower dentelle), sides with 3-line fillet border, corner-pieces with floral motif and small circle, spine gilt titled in 6 compartments within raised bands, spine tips slightly rubbed, later solander box, 8vo, Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1903 Footnotes: FINELY ILLUMINATED BY A.F. VIGERS - IN A BINDING BY COBDEN-SANDERSON FOR THE DOVES BINDERY. Allan Francis Vigers (1858-1921) trained as an architect, but was best known (like William Morris) as a designer of textiles, furniture and especially wallpaper for the likes of Jeffrey & Co. and Liberty. He joined the Art Workers Guild in 1903, and exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in 1910.'The architect Allan Francis Vigers took a highly individualistic approach to pattern design, informed by his skills as an illuminator... He specialized in intricate florals, composed of a mass of small flower heads, mounted like jewels on white or dark-blue backgrounds. At once naturalistic and highly artificial, his patterns featured typical English garden flowers... simply and accurately depicted, but arranged in consciously artful synchronized formations' (Lesley Jackson, Twentieth Century Pattern Design, Princeton, 2002). Provenance: Pamela and Raymond Lister, bookplate. Saleroom notices: To clarify, the description should read 'Designed by Cobden-Sanderson for the Doves Bindery'. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

Saleroom Notice:
To clarify, the description should read "Designed by Cobden-Sanderson for the Doves Bindery".