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Botany Illustrated . Pub. G. Bell & Sons. 1948-1961. Sixteen parts with line drawings throughout. 8vo. Softbacks. First thirteen parts loosely inserted in publisher’s boards (ready for binding). Light spotting to fore-edges of text-blocks and very occ. internally o/w. nr. fine to fine. Still the best drawings of British plants. Stella Ross-Craig (who died in February 2006), is said to be the finest and most comprehensive illustrator of British Flora, described by Wilfred Blunt as ‘unrivalled’ in her field. Her ‘Drawings of British Plants’ took 26 years to complete and comprises 1,306 plates.

Botany Illustrated . 1st. Ed. Pub. G. Bell & Sons. 1948-1973. Complete in 31 softback parts plus Index volume (hardback in dw). 8vo. Nr. fine with some minor spotting to fore-edges of text block. Still the best complete drawings of British plants. Stella Ross-Craig (who died in February 2006), is said to be the finest and most comprehensive illustrator of British Flora, described by Wilfred Blunt as ‘unrivalled’ in her field. Her ‘Drawings of British Plants’ took 26 years to complete and comprises 1,306 plates.

Botany Illustrated . Pub. G. Bell. / Bell & Hyman. 1950-1979. Complete set of 31 parts bound in 8 volumes. 8vos. Hardback. Neat ownership inscriptions to four vols. Contents fine. Five vols. bound in original blue cloth all in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition. Three vols bound in ochre cloth in fine condition with nr. fine dws. Stella Ross-Craig, who died in February 2006, is said to be the finest and most comprehensive illustrator of British Flora, described by Wilfred Blunt as ‘unrivalled’ in her field. Her ‘Drawings of British Plants’ took 26 years to complete and comprises 1,306 plates.

Botany Illustrated . Rep. Pub. Bell and Hyman. 1979. Complete set of 31 parts bound in 8 volumes with full index. Large 8vo. Fine hardbacks in nr. fine dws. Two newspaper articles (from The Times), one of which is Ross-Craig’s lengthy, fascinating obituary and one Kew magazine article, concerning a bequest she made to Kew, loosely inserted Stella Ross-Craig, who died in February 2006, is said to be the finest and most comprehensive illustrator of British Flora, described by Wilfred Blunt as ‘unrivalled’ in her field. Her ‘Drawings of British Plants’ took 26 years to complete and comprises 1,306 plates.

London: Bell & Hyman. 8 volume set. Reissue (1979). n.p. All vols. Near Fine/Near Fine copies, now preserved in archival jacket protectors . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1979.