Ray Desmond — A Celebration of Flowers

London, Collingridge Books, Hamlyn, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A lovely work by Ray Desmond celebrating exotic garden and greenhouse plants introduced to the British Isles with stunning colourful and black and white illustrations. The first edition of this work. Celebrating two-hundred years of publication of Curtis' Botanical Magazine , featuring a selection of original watercolours and hand-coloured engravings with a number of historical line drawings and photographs. A gallery of plant portraits with notes celebrating the history of the Botanical Magazine. Complete with clipped dust wrapper. Written by Ray Desmond. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. Dust wrapper price clipped and excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. With numerous illustrations both in colour and in black and white. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Near Fine.