Celebrate all things botanical and learn about the art of pressing flowers with this beautiful new book by the florists of South London’s beloved JamJar. Before long, you will be able to recognise many beautiful and remarkable plants that add colour and variety to the great outdoors. They were painted for his private pleasure, many while he was resting at his summer home in Rottingdean, and were described by his wife as the "most soothing piece of work that he ever did". Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Celebrating the beauty and appeal of flowers throughout art, history, and culture, this volume takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers have employed floral motifs throughout history.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The Flower Book spotlights 30 sample floral arrangements that show how to design and build custom floral arrangements using featured blooms. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old. M Godding Books Ltd is an internet book business running from Wiltshire and sending books all over the world every working day.Scientific botanical illustration flowered in the Renaissance, thrived in the eighteenth century and declined in the nineteenth century with the rise of photography. Burne-Jones collected folknames of flowers from many sources, but the greatest number were provided by Eleanor Leighton, Lady Leighton Warren, who shared her "knowledge of the names and legends belonging to flowers". Maxwell Armfield’s drawings are presented alongside Constance Armfield’s ‘Flower Book’ – so that the two further refine and enhance the other. A poignant and visually stunning accomplishment, showing how artists have been so devoted and obsessed with our symbiotic relationship to flowers for generations. Notes [ edit ] Portrait of Georgiana Burne-Jones by Edward Burne-Jones, 1883, showing her holding a different book of flowers.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. These digitals are among my most favorite and special, I’m so glad to have found them and to be able to use them. As deftly designed as it is readable, the volume uses flowers as eye candy, luring readers across time and continents to enjoy floral motifs. In these sections, one can find stories and drawings regarding Snowdrops, Violets, Daffodils, Primroses, Buttercups, Bluebells, Honeysuckle, Tulips, Roses, Iris, Nasturtium, and many more. Her vintage-style flower arrangements are inspired by her love of the English country garden and the hedgerows around her Oxfordshire flower farm.This elegant catalogue brings together all engravings from Redouté’s illustrations of Roses and Choix des plus belles fleurs (Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers) and the most astounding images from The Lilies. Featuring large-scale images and accessible texts Flower offers a comprehensive introduction to the subject and includes both much-loved works together with examples that may prove more surprising discoveries, even for specialists.

Using rarely seen images and with a deep understanding of his subject, Stephen Harris clearly demonstrates his passion for plants.Rachel imparts her distinctive, natural style on all of her arrangements, and considers her work an expression of her love for flowers. Many wildflower guides are organised according to plant families, but this book uses a simpler and easier approach: in the catalogue section, flowers are arranged by colour and then by size, helping you to easily home in on the particular flower that you want to identify. Worked in watercolours, bodycolour (or gouache), and gold paint, the paintings reflect the landscape around Rottingdean and include favourite themes from Burne-Jones's work: Witches' Tree (no. In all kinds of habitats, from hedges and meadows to pathways and pavements, a fascinating sequence of flowers unfolds each year. Intimate portraits of each flower include quick-reference profiles with tips for choosing the best blooms, care for cut stems, arranging recommendations, colors, shapes, and even growing tips to transform the home, from yard to tabletop.

Anna Pavord's books include her globally bestselling The Tulip and The Naming of Names, and more recently The Seasonal Gardener, published by Phaidon. Magazine, creator of the newspaper's lifestyle section Off Duty, editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and founding editor of Domino. Gathered together, these floral fragments from the 1950s to the 1990s offer a collective memory, a blurry narrative formed from the lives of many. Georgie Newbery, Somerset florist and flower farmer, shares her knowledge and wisdom on flower farming and wedding flowers in her two books, The Flower Farmer’s Year and Grow Your Own Wedding Flowers.

This elegant catalogue gathers all engravings from his masterful volumes Roses and Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers, alongside the most astounding pieces from The Lilies. VINTAGE ORIGINAL PAINTING, socialist realism, vintage realism, portrait, female portrait, Girl with a book, artist F. The Flower Book by Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) is a series of 38 round watercolours, each about six inches (15 centimetres) across, painted from 1882 to 1898. With works such as The Flower Book – Illustrated by Maxwell Armfield,Pook Press celebrates the great ‘ Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration from the 1880s to the 1930s.