Author:Elliott, Brent

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Victorian Gardens [Fred Whitsey's copy]

By: Elliott, Brent

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Batsford: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 008760

ISBN: 071344763X

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 285, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper which is fade on the spine. [Fred Whitsey's copy with his bookplate. He was the gardening correspondent of the Sunday and Daily Telegraph for a total of 45 years. A quiet unassuming man, a pacifist, a notable amateur violin player and a great gardener.]
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine Volume 17 Part 1 (incorporating the Kew Magazine) - includes the article 'The Artwork of Curtis's Botanical Magazine'

By: Elliott, Brent

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Basil Blackwell for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 2000

Seller ID: 009237

Condition: New

Illustrated, slim 8vo, pp 45, paperback, a very good copy. [Brent Elliott's article includes six historical colour plates. In addition, there are six fine modern botanical illustrations by Steven Porwol, Christabel King, Gillian Barlow, Lesley Elkan and Helen Greenop depicting Sophora davidii, Amorphophallus kiusianis, Alocasia bebula, Fritillaria davidii, Roscoea humeana forma lutea & Jasminum leptophyllum.]
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine Volume 21 part 3 (Kew Magazine) - includes the short article "The Botanical Magazine and the Royal Horticultural Society"

By: Elliott, Brent

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Oxford, Blackwell Publishing: 2004

Seller ID: 009366

Condition: New

Illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp (40), paperback, a very good copy. [Brent Elliott's article, though only five pages in length, details an important transition period in the history of the magazine. In addition, seven fine botanical colour plates by Elbe Joubert, Linda Gurr, Christabel King, Joanna Langhorne and Victoria Goaman depict Mahonia pallida (2 plates), Aconitum hemsleyanum, Rubus calophyllus, Sinningia pusilla, Epigeneium cacuminis and Agapanthus africanus walshii.]
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Treasures of the Royal Horticultural Society

By: Elliott, Brent

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, The Herbert Press: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 010710

ISBN: 1871569680

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, quarto, pp 160, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [The Lindley Library of the RHS has a collection of some 18,000 drawings and paintings by eminent botanical artists of all periods up to the present day. This book contains a selection of the rarest and most beautiful: flowers, fruit, fungi and other plants from all over the world, by artists such as G.D. Ehret, John and William Curtis, Ferdinand Bauer, William Hooker, W.H. Fitch, Augusta Withers, Margaret Stones and Mary Grierson. All the illustrations are reproduced from the artists' originals. The book includes a history of ...
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John Lindley, 1799-1865; Gardener - Botanist and Pioneer Orchidologist : a Bicentenary Celebration Volume

By: Stearn, W.T.(ed); Lindley, John; Cribb, Phillip; Brickell, C.D.; Chaloner, W.G.; Elliott, Brent; Bridge, Kathryn; Tjaden, W.L. & Allford, J.M.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club in Association with the Royal Horticultural Society: 1999

Seller ID: 004451

ISBN: 1851492968

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp 232, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. [John Lindley is honoured nowadays as the foremost British orchidologist of the 19th century, indeed by some as 'the father of orchidology'. He is especially remembered for his fundamental achievement in the classification, description and naming of orchids. He established more than 120 genera of Orchidaceae. However, he was also among the most industrious and productive of the 19th-century botanists. As administrator, professor, horticulturalist, taxonomist, editor, journalist and botanical artist, he use...
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Author:Elliott, Brent

Victorian Gardens [Fred Whitsey's copy]

Curtis's Botanical Magazine Volume 17 Part 1 (incorporating the Kew Magazine) - includes the article 'The Artwork of Curtis's Botanical Magazine'

Curtis's Botanical Magazine Volume 21 part 3 (Kew Magazine) - includes the short article "The Botanical Magazine and the Royal Horticultural Society"

Treasures of the Royal Horticultural Society

John Lindley, 1799-1865; Gardener - Botanist and Pioneer Orchidologist : a Bicentenary Celebration Volume

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