Art of Botanical Illustration

By Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt and Wilfrid Blunt

Book Overview

- A comprehensive and accessible historical and artistic survey of botanical illustration - Perhaps the most important book on botanical painting ever published This major work, first published in 1950, is still considered the classic book on the subject. It provides a comprehensive, critical and well-illustrated survey of the portrayal of plants across over three thousand years, at a more compact size. Of the first edition, the poet and gardening writer, Vita Sackville-West said: "Let no one think this is a book only for the specialist. It is essential for the specialist, certainly, but it is also for all the flower-lovers and all those who enjoy the by-ways of biography and the added attraction of good writing". This edition contains 126 color plates (more than twice as many as the first edition), alongside 140 black-and-white illustrations. It invites the reader to appreciate the works of the greatest botanical illustrators both past and present.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788841085
• ISBN13: 9781788841085
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Acc Art Books
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 4.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.7" x 10.9"