Great Flower Books 1700-1900. A Bibliographical Record Of Two Centuries Of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books. By Sacheverell Sitwell And Wilfred Blunt. The Bibliography Edited By Patrick M. Synge And Compiled By W. T. Stearn, Sabine Wilson And Handasyde Buchanan With A Foreword By S. Dillon Ripley. Sitwell, Sacheverell And Blunt, Wilfred.

Folio. 12.25 x 9.25 inches. xi + [i] + 189 pp. Bound in original dark blue cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. A fine copy. Illustrated by 52 colour plates, including frontispiece, numbered in text. Decorated by tailpiece and endpiece vignettes. A detailed world bibliography of flower books by Sacheverell Sitwell (1897-1988) and Wilfred Blunt (1901-87), writer, artist and teacher, accompanied by additional explanatory articles. The contributors include botanist, W. T. Stearn (1911-2001), who collaborated with Blunt on The Art of Botanical Illustration (1950 and 94 editions), Patrick Synge (1910-82), botanist, plant hunter and author and Handasyde Buchanan, London book collector and dealer. The first edition was published in 1956. An attractively illustrated and produced volume. BIBLIOGRAPHY FLOWERS BIBLIOGRAPHY BOTANY PLANTS 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED BIBLIOGRAPHY