Plant: Exploring the Botanical World Editors, Phaidon; Compton, James and Rix, Martyn
Plant: Exploring The Botanical World Editors, Phaidon; Compton, James And Rix, Martyn
Language: English
Published by Phaidon Press, 2016
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- Title
- Plant: Exploring the Botanical World Editors, Phaidon; Compton, James and Rix, Martyn
- Author
- Plant: Exploring The Botanical World Editors, Phaidon; Compton, James And Rix, Martyn
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0714871486
- ISBN 13
- 9780714871486
- Item weight
- 5.7 pounds
- Series
- Book 1 of 4: Phaidon Compacts
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- PLAN-B, SRC-JP, SYNC-260911
Winner of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries 2025 Award of Excellence in Series
The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever
Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller Map, Exploring the World, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolours, drawings, and prints to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life. Carefully selected by an international panel of experts and arranged in a uniquely structured sequence to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, this stunning compilation of botanically themed images includes iconic work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images.
Advisory panel: Rosie Atkins, Gillian Barlow, Brent Elliott, Celia Fisher, Patricia Jonas, Rob Kesseler, Hans Walter Laack, Gren Lucas, Henry Noltie, Mikinori Ogisu, Pia Östlund, Lynn Parker, Martyn Rix, Charlotte Tancin, Alice Tangerini and Anita Walsmit Sachs
Additional texts: Rosie Atkins, Helen Bynum, Ruth Chivers, James Compton, Tim Cooke, Brent Elliott, Celia Fisher, Carolyn Fry, Patricia Jonas, Rob Kesseler, Hans Walter Lack, Paula McWaters, Pia Östlund, Lynn Parker, Martyn Rix, Julian Shaw, Charlotte Tancin, Alice Tangerini, Guy Tindale, Jacek Wajer and Martin Walters
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About the Author
Phaidon Editors
Dr James Compton is a botanist and plant collector with a special interest in the history and classification of plants. He was a student at Kew, Head Gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden and he wrote his PhD at the University of Reading on the genus Actaea. He is the author, with Chris Lane, of Wisteria: The Complete Guide - The RHS Horticultural Monograph on all species and cultivars of wisteria.
Martyn Rix is a botanist and plant collector who has served as a botanist to The Royal Horticultural Society. He studied botany at Trinity College, Dublin, and did a PhD on Greek and Turkish Fritillaria at Cambridge. He is the editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine and has authored and edited numerous botanical guides and books.
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