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Plant
Exploring the Botanical World
Series: Phaidon Compacts
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Now available in an accessible new format, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolours, drawings, and prints to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life. Carefully selected...
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The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever – now in a handy new compact format
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Description
Now available in an accessible new format, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolours, drawings, and prints to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life.
Carefully selected by an international panel of experts and arranged in a uniquely structured sequence to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, this stunning compilation of botanically themed images includes iconic work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images.
Plant by Phaidon Editors offers a unique exploration of the natural world, making it an essential addition to any collection for those passionate about botany and the beauty of the natural environment.
Series: Phaidon Compacts
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781837291472
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd
Edition: Compact Format
Illustration: 300 Illustrations
Contributors:
- Introduction by James Compton
- Contributions by Martyn Rix
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 27.0mm
Width: 162.0mm
Height: 188.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 340
About the Author
Phaidon Editors
Dr James Compton is a botanist and plant collector with a special interest in the history and classification of plants. He was a student at Kew, Head Gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden and he wrote his PhD at the University of Reading on the genus Actaea. He is the author, with Chris Lane, of Wisteria: The Complete Guide - The RHS Horticultural Society's monograph on all species and cultivars of wisteria. Martyn Rix is a botanist and plant collector who has served as a botanist to The Royal Horticultural Society. He studied botany at Trinity College, Dublin, and did a PhD on Greek and Turkish Fritillaria at Cambridge. He is the editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine and has authored and edited numerous botanical guides and books.Also by Phaidon Editors
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