Barnard, George. Handbook of Foliage and Foreground Drawing. Illustrated by numerous examples of Trees, Shrubs, Climbing, Meadow, and Water Plants. With explanations shewing the best method of acquring the characteristic touch for each.
1st. Ed. Pub. Ingram, Cooke & Co. 1853 pp.viii, 125 with 60 b/w. plates. 8vo. Hardback. Name stamp. Ffep. removed. Some internal repairs by previous owner. Some plates bound out of sequence and some gatherings coming loose. Contents very clean and fine. Original gilt decorated cloth boards in vg. condition.
A charming guide, with background information on the natural history of the subjects in question, e.g. the Oak, and detailed hints for the illustration of trees, shrubs etc.
£35.00 [ref: 60988]

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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]

Brenan, J.P.M. et al. A Vision of Eden. The Life and Works of Marianne North.
Pub. Webb & Bower. 1980 pp.240 with reproductions of her work in colour throughout the volume. Fine hdbk. in nr. fine dw.
£9.00 [ref: 28788]

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. 4to. Hardback. All published. Neat signature dated 1963. Very minor spotting, o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth in nr. fine condition. One of the best copies we have seen. Scarce.
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).
£120.00 [ref: 58167]

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]

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]