Botanical Illustration: The Essential Reference In these revealing chronicles

In these revealing chronicles

but also because it combines artistic

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

including many of the possible modern uses for this ancient method

Botanical Illustration: The Essential Reference In these revealing chroniclesComprising more than 500 years of printed botanical illustrations, this stunning compendium of black and white and color images begins with medieval illuminated manuscripts and woodcuts from the early days of printing. In addition to images from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the collection features highlights from such seventeenth century classics as Gerard's Herbal, Besler's Hortus Eystettensis, and Crispin van de Pass' Hortus Floridus.