Author: Wilfrid Blunt; William T. Stearn
Title: The Art of Botanical Illustration
Description: London, Antique Collectors' Club in Association with The Royal Botanical Gardens, 1995. Cloth. A smart new edition of this illustrated survey of botanical art, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Second impression of the new edition, revised. Illustrated throughout with one hundred and twenty-five colour images and numerous black-and-white. A detailed and beautifully illustrated study of the portrayal of plants in art through over three thousand years. With chapters on the botanical artist, the legacy of antiquary, the rebirth of Naturalism, early etchers, the age of the lithograph, and much more. Written by Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, an English art teacher, writer, artist, and curator, and William Thomas Stearn, a British botanist. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Art Botanical Illustration Blunt Botanical Not Stated


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