(BOTANICAL.) Mayrhoffer, Johann Nepomuk. Anleitung zur Blumen-Zeichnung. 14 full-page lithographs of flowers. Oblong 4to, 240x380 mm, old blue wrappers, housed in attractive 1/4 green morocco over green cloth clamshell case, with gilt green morocco title label onlaid; fine. Munich: Im Verlag der lithographischen Kunst-Anstalt bey der Feyertags-Schule, 1816
Rare second edition of this early lithographed drawing manual of flowers. Lithography was invented 20 years before, but in 1816 it was far from mainstream. "Mayrhoffer's flowers were drawn in the idiom of eighteenth-century flower plates, and his careful and unobtrusive chalk-work provided an ideal basis of hand-coloring." -- Twyman, Lithography 1800-1850, page 20; Dussler Nr. VII; Nissen, BBI, 1322; Winkler 521, 167-181.
