Blunt, Wilfrid / Stearn, William T. The Art of Botanical Illustration [Charles Nelson’s Copy]. New Edition – revised and enlarged. Kew, Antique Collectors’ Club in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1994. 27 x 21 cm. 368 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and B&W. Original green cloth. Hard cover. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Ex Libris of Sue and Charles Nelson on front paste down. A bright and clean copy with interesting provenance.

Provenance: E. Charles Nelson was a Taxonomist at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, and Foundation Chairman of the Irish Garden Plant Society. His Books include ‘An Irish Flower Garden’ (1984), ‘The Brightest Jewel’: a History of the National Botanic Gardens (1987), ‘The Burren’: a Companion to the Wildflowers of an Irish Limestone Wilderness (1991), ‘An Irish Florilegium I & II’, ‘Flowers of Mayo’ and ‘Shamrock’: Botany and History of an Irish Myth.

• Keywords: Art · Art & Design · Fine Bindings & Editions · Fine Bindings & Editions · History · Natural Sciences · Reference · Reference · Science & Nature
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851491775
• Dust Jacket
• Inventory Number: 104885AB

Our price: EUR 120,--