Author: Wilfrid Blunt; William T. Stearn
Title: The Art of Botanical Illustration
Description: Not Stated , Antique Collectors' Club, the Royal Botanic Gardens , 1994. Cloth. An excellent large paper, illustrated survey of botanical art, complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. A complete, detailed, and beautifully illustrated study of the portrayal of plant through over three thousand years. Appreciation and knowledge of the art is shared by Wilfrid Blunt, artist and expert in the subject, while William T. Stearn supports with botanical, biographical, and bibliographical matters. This is the revised and enlarged edition from the original published in 1950, with additions to the chapter on the twentieth century and extra coloured plates and illustrations. Richly and beautifully illustrated in text both in colour and in black and white. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. The dust wrapper is unclipped and excellent with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. With numerous illustrations in text both in colour and in black and white. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Near Fine.
Keywords: botanical art new editions illustrated complete new editions Not Stated
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Title: The Art of Botanical Illustration
Description: Not Stated , Antique Collectors' Club, the Royal Botanic Gardens , 1994. Cloth. An excellent large paper, illustrated survey of botanical art, complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. A complete, detailed, and beautifully illustrated study of the portrayal of plant through over three thousand years. Appreciation and knowledge of the art is shared by Wilfrid Blunt, artist and expert in the subject, while William T. Stearn supports with botanical, biographical, and bibliographical matters. This is the revised and enlarged edition from the original published in 1950, with additions to the chapter on the twentieth century and extra coloured plates and illustrations. Richly and beautifully illustrated in text both in colour and in black and white. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. The dust wrapper is unclipped and excellent with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. With numerous illustrations in text both in colour and in black and white. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Near Fine.
Keywords: botanical art new editions illustrated complete new editions Not Stated
Price: GBP 55.00 = appr. US$ 78.54 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 813A54
- Book number: 813A54
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