An Irish Florilegium. Volumes 1 & 2 (1983-87)
Book ID: 62312
Price: €950.00
An Irish Florilegium. Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland. Watercolour paintings by Wendy Walsh. Introduction by Ruth Isabel Ross, Notes on the Plates by Charles Nelson, with 48 Colour Plates. London: Thames & Hudson, 1983. Pp, 222. Folio. An Irish Florilegium II. Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland. Watercolour paintings by Wendy Walsh. Introduction and Notes on the Plates by Charles Nelson, with 48 Colour Plates. London: Thames & Hudson, 1987. Pp, 216. Folio. Two volumes in near fine condition in very good dust jackets.
A classic work on Irish flowers, Part 1 was published in an edition of 3000 copies and Part 2 in an edition of 1500 copies.
Wendy Walsh is one of Ireland’s foremost botanical artists. ‘An Irish Florilegium’ won a bronze medal for the ‘Most beautiful Book in the World’ at the Leipzig Book Fair.
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