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...

A fine binding by Sir Edward Sullivan [E.S. Aurifex]; pp. xvi, 315. Crushed brown morocco, with the boards tooled in gilt with an Arts and Craft influence, the spine decorated with a floral pattern; wide turn-ins extravagently decorated; Bound by E.S...

A fine of the first and only hardback edition; pp. 200, with sixteen pages of colour plates and over 60 black and white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket fine, no fading to the spine, there is no change in colour of the bright orange flowers and...

An exceptional copy of the first and only hardback edition; pp. 200, with sixteen pages of colour plates and over 60 black and white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket near fine, no fading to the spine, there is no change in colour of the bright o...

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...

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...