Buy this book on-line STEWART, JOYCE - Edited by: : Orchids at KewLONDON.HMSO PUBLICATIONS CENTRE,1992. ISBN 0112500072.
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour montage'd photographic illustrated dw/dj,with pink,blue and white lettering; with minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered title and gilt silhouetted orchid decoration beneath,to centre of top 1/3rd of front board; and bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a pink+white striped headband,and immaculate plain pink endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB +dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xpp+1-155pp [paginated] includes list of contributors,foreword by Professor Ghillean T Prance,acknowledgements, introduction,3 sections comprising 14 chapters, profuse contemporary b/w+colour illustrations and photographs throughout the text and the book,a glossary,a further reading list and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page with orchid colour photograph to verso,colour orchid vignetted illustrated title page,contents list/table with orchid colour plate illustration to reverse,and a colour photographic illustrated introduction page.
Orchids have been admired for many centuries for their beauty of form,their dazzling colours and almost endless variety.They have been cultivated in the famous gardens and greenhouses of Kew since the 18thC,and throughout this long association Kew has played a leadng role in their introduction,naming,propagation,
cultivation and conservation.
Illustrated with some of the finest specimens from the gardens' collection,this volume follows the story of orchids at Kew from the earliest times up to the present day.As well as describing the species and hybrids which can be seen and the techniques evolved to grow,study and display them,we are introduced to the great botanists who were fascinated by these unusual plants,to the illustrators who captured their beauty in paintings and drawings,and to the important work of conserving and reintroducing rare orchids.
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