A Vision of Eden: The Life and Works of Marianne North Published in Collaboration with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
by North, Marianne
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0906671183
- ISBN 13
- 9780906671184
- Seller
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Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
In 1871 Marianne North escaped the swaddling of Victorian society and departed on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. This abridged version of her lively travel memoirs and autobiography is illustrated in colour with a selection from her collection of over 800 pictures now housed in the Marianne North gallery at Kew.
Subjects North, Marianne, 1830-1890. | Botanical artists -- England -- Biography. | Botanical illustration -- History.
Synopsis
From the DJ: "A Vision of Eden, the first collection in book form of Marianne North's fabulously detailed and exotic botanical paintings, also contans excerpts from her autobiography and vivid travel memoirs.... North, who usually traveled alone during the late nineteenth century, was a pioneer both in terms of her lush and wildly colorful artistic style and in the scope of her farflung journeys.."
Reviews
a very interesting tale and a wonderful art wotk
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lansdowne Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 307
- Title
- A Vision of Eden: The Life and Works of Marianne North Published in Collaboration with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Author
- North, Marianne
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0906671183
- ISBN 13
- 9780906671184
- Publisher
- Webb & Bower (Publishers), Limited
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1980
- Pages
- x; 240 p. : ill. (some col.), map (on lining papers)
- Size
- 26 cm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated; First Edition; Gardens; collectible;
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