Blunt, W. & W.T. Stearn. The Art of Botanical Illustration.
Rep. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 1995 pp.368 with 125 coloured plates and many text figs. A thoroughly vg. copy in similar dustwrapper. Out-of-print.
£50.00 [ref: 43666]

Blunt, W. and Stearn, W.T. The Art of Botanical Illustration.
New Ed. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 1994 pp.368 with 125 coloured plates and many text figs. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Out-of-print.
Originally published in 1950 as apart of the New Naturalist Serie, this much enhanced edition is a must for all those interested in botanical illustration and the history of the techniques involved. Highly recommended.
£40.00 [ref: 64258]

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Brown, A. Flower Paintings from the Apothecaries’ Garden. Contemporary Botanical Illustrations from Chelsea Physic Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 2005 pp.135 with colour plates throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Small address label to front cover of dw.
Contains 56 colour reproductions of paintings, each one by a different artist. The plants depicted range from small alpines to magnificent trees and from food plants to those which yield life-saving drugs.
£40.00 [ref: 58142]

Church, A.H. Types of Floral Mechanism. A Selection of Diagrams and Descriptions of Common Flowers. Arranged as an Introduction to the Systematic Study of Angiosperms. Part 1, Types I-XII (Jan. to April).
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1908 pp.vii, 211 with full-page colour plates throughout. Complete. 4to. Hardback. Ex-North London Collegiate Library. Neat inscription dated 1908 to ffep. Contents thor. vg. Original boards, showing some wear to cloth, still very sound and good to vg.
A quite superb and unique work. ‘The revolutionary drawings of Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937) are considered some of the finest botanical illustrations of the twentieth century. By dissection and the study of flowers at different stages of their development, he was able to portray their mechanisms in words and in brilliant illustrations that exposed their structures’ Mabberley (2000).
£95.00 [ref: 62795]

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Clapham, A.R. et al. Flora of the British Isles Illustrations. Parts I to IV.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cambridge Uni. Press. 1957-65 Four volume set. 4to. Neat inscription to ffep., of Part 1. Minor spotting to top of text blocks, o/w., all fine hardbacks in thor. vg. to fine dws.
Companion volumes to the ‘Flora of the British Isles’, with the arrangement of species following the order in the Flora. Drawn by Sybil J. Roles from fresh specimens to give an impression of the living plant.
£40.00 [ref: 58756]

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Coats, Alice M. The Book of Flowers. Four Centuries of Flower Illustration.
Phaidon, 1973. Pp.208 with 126 illustrations, including 40 in colour. Folio. Very good, in stained slipcase.
£15.00 [ref: 21856]

Coats, Alice M. The Treasury of Flowers.
1st. Ed. Pub. Phaidon Press Ltd. 1975 pp.30 plus 118 full page colour and b/w. plates. Thor. vg. hdbk. in vg. dw.
The object of this book is to bring to light some of the forgotten treasures of the small sized flower book, considering works like Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.
£15.00 [ref: 27457]

Cribb, P. The Forgotten Orchids of Alexandre Brun.
1st. Ed. Pub. Grove Press. 1992 pp.159 with many fine colour plates. Small folio. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A fascinating selection of the Alexandre Brun’s paintings of orchids made over a century ago.
£30.00 [ref: 55693]

Cribb. P. & Tibbs, M. A very Victorian Passion. The Orchid Paintings of John Day 1863 to 1888.
1st. Ed. Pub. Blacker & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2004 pp.464 with colour and b/w. illus. throughout. Landscape 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
Sir Harry Veitch VHM said of John Day that his “collection became one of the richest and most famous in Europe...no amateur of his time possessed a greater practical knowledge of orchids”.
£17.50 [ref: 64909]

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Dean, Pauline. Portfolio of a Botanical Artist.
Pub. Botanical Publishing. 2004 pp.157 with many colour illus. Royal 4to. A fine hdbk. in illus. boards.
£25.00 [ref: 49419]