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HENREY -British Botanical Horticultural Literature 1975

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HENREY, Blanche (1906-1983). British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. 3 volumes, quarto (10 11/16 x 7 1/4 inches). xxvi, 290 + xvi, 748 + xvii, 142pp. 32 colour illustrations and 209 black-and-white facsimile illustrations of title-pages, etc. throughout. Gray cloth, boxed. An exhaustive study. Blanche Henrey (1906-1983) was one of Britain's preeminent botanical bibliographers; her monumental work British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800 contains 1538 entries, ranging from 16th-century treatises on grafting to 19th-century tomes describing the art of garden landscaping.

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