Foord, J.
Decorative flower studies. For the use of artists, designers, students, and others. A series of forty coloured plates printed in facsimile of the original drawings, accompanied by studies of detail from each subject, and descriptive notes.
London, B. T. Batsford, 1901. Folio (37.6 x 27.2 cm). Half-title, title page, [iv] pp.; 40 delicate lithographed plates with pochoir colouring and with explanatory text leaves. Pictorial cloth boards. Pictorial endpapers.
Illustrated and written by the Scottish author, artist, and botanical illustrator Jeannie [also Jeanie, Jenny] Foord, about whom little is known. These illustrations were made "in the manner of Japanese woodblock prints. Her floral prints are produced as lithographs and flat colour tints are applied using the pochoir process (colour is added by hand using a stencil) by the Paris firm of E. Greningaire. They are signed and dated within the plate with a chop mark. This device also references Japanese printmakers and was widely used by artisans and artists of the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements. Her botanical designs were used by artisans in the Arts and Crafts movement in decorative applications in stained glass, fabric, woodwork and cement sculpture" (botanical art and artists website). All plates with the author's logo, a few dated [18]97 or [18]98, all others [18]99. A very good, clean and complete copy. Not in Schneider-Henn, Ornament und Dekoration.
