Two volumes bound in one; two letterpress title pages set within double-rule borders, both with engraved vignettes; 211 engraved plates (numbered 1-100 in vol. I with 7 additional unnumbered plates - one between plts 25 & 26, two between plts 32 & 33...

The standard edition of this finely produced, large-folio publication is limited to 200 signed and numbered copies (numbered 56-255), with the complete print-run limited to just 255 copies. A magnificent synthesis of outstanding entomological art and...

pp. xviii, 317, 99 colour and over 100 b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket fine, not price-clipped, no fading, attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscription...

A fine unfaded copy of the first and only hardback edition, pp. 192, 14 colour photographs and 150 b/w photographs and drawings. Dust jacket fine, not price-clipped, now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Green Buckram boards fine. Con...

This is the original plate No. 42 from "Wild Flowers of the World" - a fine water-colour painting by the renowned botanical artist Barbara Everard (b. 1910, died ?). It is a highly decorative work in very good condition with vibrant but accurate co...

This is an original botanical watercolour painting of a lily cultivar painted by Lorna B. Kell. The dimensions are 380x570mm. "Lorna Beatrice Kell born in London 1914. Painter of still life and abstracts, printmaker and textile designer. She stu...