The Art of Botanical Illustration by Wilfrid Blunt (118 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Revised & enlarged. With dust jacket Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Second edition, second printing. 28 x 21.5 cm. 368pp. Green cloth in dust jacket. 125 color plates as well as many other illustrations in black and white. Originally done in 1950, this is a second printing of the new revised edition, which was first done in 1994. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Soft cover. Glossy, stiff, white pictorial wrappers. Reprint. 304pp. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Couple, small, light creases in covers, else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Green cloth, gilt title. 336pp. 47 col. plates; 32 b/w plates; 75 figs. Spine slightly bumped. Spine and margins of cloth slightly faded. Some shelf wear, tanning and foxing to dust jacket. Small chips and tears to spine and corners. Price clipped. Slight tanning to end papers and foxing to text block edges, o'wise contents clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third edition, printed in 1955. Near Fine in a Good+ dust jacket, chipped at extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: like new. book and dus jacket appear unused.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. with 47 colour plates, 32 black and white plates and 75 figures in the text (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound, green cloth boards, no writing inside, foxing bands on the end papers. Small tears, scuffing and dust spotting on jacket, also price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First American edition. Black and white & colored illustrations inside. Slight staining on title page. Jacket's condition is fair with tearing on spine, front & back covers. There have been in the past occasional studies of the work of individual botanical artists and accounts of particular periods of botanical illustration, but Mr. Wilfrid Blunt is the first to undertake a complete and critical survey of the whole subject.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. New edition, revised and enlarged. 368 pages. Profusely illustrated. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. (I3).

The New Naturalist, number 14 in the series. 8vo; original green buckram, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxxii + 304, incl. index; line drawings in text; plates, several of which in full colour. Dustwrapper somewhat tanned and foxed, with trace of edge-wear; earlier owner's bookplate on front pastedown; some foxing, largely to edges and prelims. Good condition. Concerning this landmark work, it is pointed out in a later edition that it "provides a comprehensive, critical and well illustrated survey of the portrayal of plants through more than three thousand years." An essential guide for collectors of botanical prints and colourplate books.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardcover: Good Condition. Dust Jacket: Fair Condition - Minor Ripping On Top. Binding Tight And Secure. Pages Clean And Bright Throughout Except Spotted Edges Of Pages On The Outside. Corners Minor Bumping. Photograph Is Added By Selling Site And Not Ours, Therefore May Not Reflect This Edition Or Condition.

Reprint. pp. xxxii, 304. With 47 colour plates; 32 black & white plates and 75 text figures. The slightest of scuffing to the original green buckram, else a very good hardback copoy. No wrapper.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Green boards with gilt titles to spine, 47 colour plates, 32 b & w plates and 75 figures in the text, pp xxxi 304, darkening to endpapers, no foxing. No names or book plates, priceclipped dj chipped and with small areas of loss (see photo). Overall, a very nice copy. All proceeds of sale goto LOROS, a Hospice Charity serving Leicestershire and Rutland.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 5.45.

Condition: Sehr gut. Reprinted. 304 Seiten. 47 colour plates,32 black and white plates, 75 figures in the text. Nur der Umschlag mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, sonst SEHR gutes Exemplar. Aus der Bibliothek der Schriftstellerin und Malerin ANITA ALBUS (!!) . Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700 Originalleinen mit Original-Schutzumschlag.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Trade paperback. 304pp. Illustratred. Glossy illustrated wrappers. A trifle soiled, else very near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Reprinted. A near fine early reprint edition copy. Pp. xxxi, 304, with 47 colour plates, 32 black-and-white plates and 75 figures in the text. Original dust jacket very good and bright, some fading to the spine, light staining to the rear panel. Green buckram cloth binding fine. Contents clean and tight and crisp, no inscriptions. A bright copy in a very good jacket. Size: 8vo. Book.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Condition: Near Fine. Revised edition (hardback). 8vo (28cm by 22cm), 368pp. 125 colour plates, 67 figures. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. Short ownership inscription, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 1851491775.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1955). (1950) 1955 3rd edition. Large 8vo (152 x 222mm). Ppxxxii,304. Colour & b/w plates from paintings, b/w illustrations, bibliographies. Green buckram. Damp staining to some pages. Good only in poor dust-wrapper. This is a solid and scholarly piece of art history which also contains much information of practical use. "There have been in the past occasional studies of the work of individual botanical artists and accounts of particular periods of botanical illustration, but Mr. Wilfrid Blunt is the first to undertake a complete and critical survey of the whole subject." Blunt was an artist and art historian, much of whose career was spent as an art teacher at one or other public school. Wilfrid Blunt was the brother of Sir Anthony Blunt, KGB. Chapters include: The botanical artist; The legacy of antiquity; The rebirth of naturalism; The first printed herbals; The herbals of Brunfels and Fuchs; The decline of the woodcut; Some flower painters of the late sixteenth century; The early etchers and metal engravers; Rabel, Robert and Aubriet; Holland - the flower-piece and the Dutch influence; Some botanical books of the late 17th and early 18th centuries; The age of Ehret; West and East; The age of Redoute; The Botanical Magazine; Kilburn, Sowerby and Sydenham Edwards; Francis and Ferdinand Bauer; Thornton and the Temple of Flora; England in the early 19th century; Walter Fitch, the age of the lithograph; John Ruskin; The 20th century; 500 years of botanical illustration. Appended is a series of articles by W.H.Fitch on botanical drawing, from the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1869. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Binding nice and tight. Pages nice and clean. Very slight foxing and dustiness to the text block. Spine cloth a little faded. Slight offsetting to the front free endpaper. A very good indeed, tight, clean copy in very good, slightly creased, nicked and rubbed dustwrapper. The dustwrapper, designed by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, is priced 21s. net. Please contact us for more photographs if you require them. We usually have first editions of all the Collins New Naturalist Series in stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust jacket in good condition. Includes a color frontis, 47 color plates, 32 b/w plates, and 75 figures in the text. Binding clean and tight, and the book is overall in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 2nd Edition. xxxi, 304 p. With 47 colour plates 32 black and white plates and 75 figures in the text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. London: Collinbs, 1967. (The New Naturalist, 14). Reprint of the work first published in 1950. xxxii+304p. With 47 colour plates, 32 black and white plates, and 75 figures in the text. A very good copy, firmly bound in publisher's green cloth, in an unclipped dust jacket frayed at the corners and head and tail of spine, with small carefully repaired losses at foot of spine and inner edge of somewhat grubby lower panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. A bit below average copy of this great book, the green cloth binding has overall fading to a lighter shade and the spine is cocked, the binding remains tight and is clean, also, mild foxing to the end-papers, the contents are fine, the jacket has tanning and edge-wear, the bottom corner of the front flap is clipped but the American price (5.00) is stamped at the top, our professional (removable) mylar cover enhances the jacket's appearance and protects it from further wear, "an essential addition to the libraries of all botanists and specialists.".

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1955). (1950) 1967 reprint. Large 8vo (152 x 222mm). Ppxxxii,304. Colour & b/w plates from paintings, b/w illustrations, bibliographies. Green buckram. Ex lib, usual faults but clean. Good reading copy in frayed dw. This is a solid and scholarly piece of art history, which also contains much information of practical use. "There have been in the past occasional studies of the work of individual botanical artists and accounts of particular periods of botanical illustration, but Mr. Wilfrid Blunt is the first to undertake a complete and critical survey of the whole subject." Blunt was an artist and art historian, much of whose career was spent as anart teacher at one or other public school. Wilfrid Blunt was the brother ofSir Anthony Blunt, KGB. Chapters include; the botanical artist; the legacy of antiquity; the rebirth of naturalism; the first printed herbals; the herbals of Brunfels and Fuchs; the decline of the woodcut; some flower painters of the late sixteenth century; the early etchers and metal engravers; Rabel, Robert and Aubriet; Holland - the flower-piece and the Dutch influence; some botanical books of the late 17th and early 18th centuries; the age of Ehret; West and East; the age of Redoute; The Botanical Magazine; Kilburn, Sowerby and Sydenham Edwards; Francis and Ferdinand Bauer; Thornton and the Temple of Flora; England in the early 19th century; Walter Fitch, the age of the lithograph; John Ruskin; the 20th century; 500 years of botanical illustration. Appended is a series of articles by W.H.Fitch on botanical drawing, from the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1869. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. 304 pages, colour and b/w illustrations. Heavy so would need substantial extra postage for overseas.

VG bright tight copy in publishers cloth in scruffy marked and worn dustjacket. 1st edition of this important study. ISBN B0007J05R2.