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Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. There is gilt on the spine and the front of the book. The boards are in fine condition. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binding is strong and the book charming. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Well illustrated, with 31 fine botanical colour plates by Joanna Langhorne, Margaret Stones and Christabel King, all reproduced from issues published between 1971 and 1981, with their original text by Phillip Cribb, Peter Taylor, Jeffrey Wood, Joyce Stewart and others, clothbound, a very good copy in a very slightly worn and faded dustwrapper.

125 pages, 31 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm. owner's plate. Reproductions of 31 orchid plates, with accompanying text, published in Curtis's botanical magazine since 1971. The illustrators are Margaret Stones, Christabel King, and Joanna Langhorne

David R. Hunt, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. In lovely condition. The dust jacket is in fine condition. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Jacket has light general wear, a 1cm tear plus a very small mark to front. Form owner's ink stamp tp front pastedown and title-page, otherwise internally very clean. Binding tight. 125pp Size: 160mm x 255mm

24.5 x 14.5 cm. Pp. (viii), 125, colour plates and text illustrations. Excellent copy in similar dust wrapper.

London, Curwen Books, 1981. Octavo; cloth; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little lightly sunned and creased.

pp.125; 31 fine colour plates, of which 5 are folding. Original dust jacket fine with minimal wear, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine bright copy. A fine collected edition of all the orchid plates and text published in the Magazine between 1971 and 1981; all illustrated by either Margaret Stones or Christabel King. Size: 8vo