Author: William H. Robinson
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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
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Author: William Robinson
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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
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Author: François André Michaux
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300071396
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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This is the latest volume in a major series that describes selections of the rare books, manuscripts, and other works of art held at Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Rachel Lambert Mellon. The 111 items chosen for this volume on floral illustration since the later Middle Ages include Books of Hours, still-life and vanitas paintings, botanical prints, and books of instruction of every kind, from planting a garden to making flowers using colored papers or wax. Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi groups the works into chapters on such topics as florilegia, women artists, tulipomania, Dutch and Flemish painting, and exotic flowers from distant lands, providing an introduction to each chapter that gives the contextual background necessary for a real understanding and appreciation of floral illustration past and present. The sheer beauty as well as extraordinary skills encountered, for example, in manuscript florilegia by Jacob Marrel and Maria Sibylla Merian, in hand-colored books by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues and G.B. Ferrari, and in flower studies painted by John Constable, Margaret Mee, and others, are testament to the high status accorded floral illustration over the centuries. This handsome, richly illustrated volume will attract all those with an interest in rare books and the history of art as well as horticulturalists, botanists, and garden historians.

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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Leo Lionni
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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"Leo Lionni here presents ... [an] imaginary plant kingdom .. Lionni marshals all the facts, all the fabulous lore and scholarship surrounding parallel plants ... And, too, he provides his own elegant, detailed, and scientifically accurate drawings of each nonexistent plant species"--Cover.

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Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 856

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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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