The art of botanical illustration
1950, First Edition. London : Collins. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked waxed green cloth boards, now with some minor damp-stains. Small abrasion to rear lower corner. Spine dust-toned, with endbands slightly rubbed. Text edges, preliminary and final leaves faintly foxed, with the interior otherwise tight, bright and clean. A well-preserved example overall. Item #466721
Physical description; 304 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm. Notes; Co-author: William T. Stearn. Contents; The Botanical Artist -- The Legacy of Antiquity -- The Rebirth of Naturalism -- The First Printed Herbals -- The Herbals of Brunfels and Fuchs -- The Decline of the Woodcut -- Some Flower Painters of the Late Sixteenth Century -- The Early Etchers and Metal Engravers -- Rabel, Robert, and Aubriet -- Holland: The Flower-piece and the Dutch Influence -- Some Botanical Books of the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- The Age of Ehret -- West and East -- The Age of Redouté -- The Botanical Magazine -- Kilburn, Sowerby, and Sydenham Edwards -- Francis and Ferdinand Bauer -- Thornton and the Temple of Flora -- England in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Walter Fitch: The Age of the Lithograph -- John Ruskin: A Digression -- The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- The Twentieth Century -- Epilogue: Five Hundred Years of Botanical Illustration. Subjects; Botanical illustration. History. Botany. Pictorial works. Flowers in art. 20th century. Illustrated. Colour plates.
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