Prentice Hall, Inc., New York, 1987 Fine large heavy hardcover, in near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear, 9" by  12", 312 pages, first edition stated."Here for the first time, the artist's superb rare volume, Chois des plus belles fleurs et des plus beaux fruits, is reprinted in a single volume created from original engravings in the British Museum." "Pierre-Joseph Redouté, was a painter and botanist from the Austrian Netherlands, known for his watercolors of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de Malmaison, many of which were published as large colored stipple engravings.He was nicknamed "the Raphael of flowers" and has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time" (Wikipedia)