# Plant: Exploring the Botanical World - Hardcover

by **Phaidon Phaidon Editors** (Author), **James Compton** (Introduction by), **Martyn Rix** (Contribution by)

**The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever**

Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller _Map, Exploring the World_, 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work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images.

**Advisory panel**: Rosie Atkins, Gillian Barlow, Brent Elliott, Celia Fisher, Patricia Jonas, Rob Kesseler, Hans Walter Laack, Gren Lucas, Henry Noltie, Mikinori Ogisu, Pia ﾖstlund, Lynn Parker, Martyn Rix, Charlotte Tancin, Alice Tangerini and Anita Walsmit Sachs

**Additional texts**: Rosie Atkins, Helen Bynum, Ruth Chivers, James Compton, Tim Cooke, Brent Elliott, Celia Fisher, Carolyn Fry, Patricia Jonas, Rob Kesseler, Hans Walter Lack, Paula McWaters, Pia ﾖstlund, Lynn Parker, Martyn Rix, Julian Shaw, Charlotte Tancin, Alice Tangerini, Guy Tindale, Jacek Wajer and Martin Walters

### Author Biography

**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 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.

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 1.5 x 11.6 x 10.2 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** September 26, 2016

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