Hunt, D.R. (Ed.). Orchids from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. 1st. Ed. Pub. Curwen Books. 1981
pp.125 with 31 finely reproduced colour plates (5 being fold-outs). Large 8vo. Bookplate of Sybil B. Spencer with her signature. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw.
A superb collation of all the orchid plates and text published in the Magazine between 1971 and 1981. All illustrations are by either Margaret Stones or Christabel King. Sybil Beatrice Spencer born Sybil Beatrice Armitage (1908 – 1994) was a British gardener. With her husband and son she created the York Gate Garden. After the deaths of her son and her husband she cared for the garden for twelve years leaving it to a charity to be shared by visitors.
£22.50 [Ref: 71863]