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Margaret Erskine Wilson, late President of Kendal Natural History Society, was a keen amateur botanist and water-colourist. In 1999, she donated to the Society 150 sheets of water-colour paintings representing a thousand British and Irish plants in flower and in fruit, painted in situ over many years and in various places. At the time she donated the paintings to Kendal Natural History Society, she wrote: Begun in 1943/4 for a friend who said, 'I might learn the names of flowers if you drew them for me, in the months they're in flower'! The result is this beautiful, previously unpublished book of all her accurate and informative illustrations, painted over a period of 45 years. Over a thousand British and Irish flowers are represented in this book and it still today serves Margaret Erskine Wilson's original purpose ― it is an easy way to learn the names of our delicate and beautiful wild flowers. Review: Beautiful book!!!😍🩵❤️LOVE IT!! - I’m SO SO HAPPY with this book!!! Absolutely fantastic!! Gorgeous bright illustrations , enjoy watching and reading it with my coffee!! Book is in excellent condition, fast shipping. Review: Beautiful - What a lovely book. The illustrations are fantastic. They are not only beautiful but also interesting. The pictures are intricate and add an extra level of beauty.
| Best Sellers Rank | #112,816 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #15 in Wild Plant Gardening #48 in Flowers in Biological Sciences #135 in Flower Gardening |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,011 Reviews |
A**R
Beautiful book!!!😍🩵❤️LOVE IT!!
I’m SO SO HAPPY with this book!!! Absolutely fantastic!! Gorgeous bright illustrations , enjoy watching and reading it with my coffee!! Book is in excellent condition, fast shipping.
A**Y
Beautiful
What a lovely book. The illustrations are fantastic. They are not only beautiful but also interesting. The pictures are intricate and add an extra level of beauty.
N**Y
Gorgeous Book
There is nothing to dislike about this book. The artwork is beautiful and there’s a lot of it. I do agree with other viewers that it is much smaller than you would think but I’ve learned to check dimensions on books when I’m ordering online so I wasn’t bothered by this.
T**M
BOOK IS SMALLER THAN YOU THINK
wish the size of the pages were bigger. pay attention to the dimensions of the book: pages are 7" x 6" but there are 147 beautiful pages of drawings
C**N
sus ilustraciones
Me encantaron los diseños, excelente complemento para nuestros collages.
L**L
Very pleased!
Book arrived in perfect condition and quickly! Very happy!
A**R
A BEAUTIFUL BOOK
This is an AWESOME book. Just sit yourself down with a cup-a-tea & enjoy the walk through this garden of eden. Beautifully illustrated and a pleasant look up close at nature at it's best. I WILL, eventually, be using it for junk journaling ... but right now, it's too beautiful to just LOOK AT.
L**R
Beautifully illustrated!
A comprehensive book on British wildflowers and trees, beautifully illustrated and showing what one might expect to find blooming month-by-month throughout the year. Latin bi-nominal names are provided along with the more commonly recognized British names of plants.
D**T
Je l'ai reçu très vite et merci!
Pour le scrapbooking
V**I
FAVOLOSO
Un piccolo, compatto, ricchissimo libro di fantabulosi aquerelli!!!! Compratelo, è stupefacente, bellissimo, puro stile british, lo adorerete!!!!
O**N
素晴らしい!美しい!!
ひと言で言えば植物水彩画の画集です。 ただひと言では語れない… ページを巡る度に癒しの溜息が出続ける… 是非手に取って眺めてほしい一冊です。
L**N
Great Book, Very Beautiful.
Beautiful Book. So many great pages of botanical prints Florals and plants.
J**P
Beautiful paintings
This book is an absolute treasure! There are 1000 (perhaps more) British wildflowers painted in watercolour. As a watercolour artist myself, I really love the paintings. The book is a hardcover book with a jacket, and the pages are thick. The size of the book is approximately 15 by 17.5 cm. The flower paintings are really good and include the stems, buds and leaves. The common names are included within most of the illustrations but not all. The scientific names are at the sides of each page. Although there are several plants overlapping one another on each page, I have no problems sorting them out. As a calligrapher and watercolour artist, I use plants as fillers in my work. The way it is arranged in this book, makes it easier to find the type of plants I want easily through their physical appearance as I don’t need to know their names. Other than the scientific names, common names and months when the plants can be found, there is no other information given in this book which is acceptable to me as I do have another book to refer to. It is a great book – as a coffee table book, as a reference book for artists/illustrators, and for lovers of beautiful art.
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