The Art of Botanical Illustration

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Antique Collectors Club in association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

BINDING
Olive green cloth boards with gilt lettering.

BOOK CONDITION
Very good, boards have a little wear at edges but printed pages and illustrations are clear with few discernable marks.

DUST JACKET
Some creasing and a couple of tiny tears at top corners, fading to spine.

EDITION
1994 new revised and enlarged edition of the 1967 4th impression. First published 1950.

DESCRIPTION
Illustrated throughout with coloured and black and white reproductions, both full page plates and within the text. Decorated endpapers. 368 pp. Large volume, quarto, approx. 22 x 28 cm.

SYNOPSIS
A beautifully illustrated edition of the classic work on the history of botanical illustration, with a newly extended chapter on the twentieth century.