THE ART OF BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION

England: Antique Collectors' Club in Association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , 1995. 368pp. Colour art illustrated endpapers. Colour-art frontis (Desert pea, acrylic painting by Paul Jones), colour and b/white plates, and b/white figures, throughout. Book clean, square. Gilt title to firm spine. Gilt title to front panel of olive green cloth boards, very small light spot to same. Leaves clean and unmarked. Colour art illustrated dustjacket mildly edge-creased. From the jacket flap: "This major work, first published in 1950, is still considered the classic work on the subject. Now substantially revised and enlarged, the book provides a comprehensive, critical and well-illustrated survey of the portrayal of plants through more than three thousand years . . . Professor Stearn has revised and enlarged the classic work and greatly extended the chapter on the twentieth century. The new edition includes 126 colour plates and 140 black and white illustrations, thus making available to the general public numerous examples of the work of great botanical illustrators past and present." Contents include: Introduction to the 1994 edition by William T. Stearn. Preface to the 1950 edition by Wilfrid Blunt. 24 chapters. Appendix A, B, C and D. List of Illustrations. Index. Book weight approx. 1.78Kg. (Customers outside Australia only - This item will incur extra postage charges as it weighs over 1KG. Please email for quote).. New Edition, Revised & Enlarged. Reprint. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - (approx. 27.75cm x 21.75cm).