Yale Center for British Art

Title:
The Highgrove Florilegium exhibition / Garden Museum, summer 2009.
Published / Created:
London : Garden Museum, 2009.
Physical Description:
64 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 143
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View finding aid for the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ycba.mss.0017
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Images and extracts from The Highgrove Florilegium published by Addison Publications Limited. © A.G. Carrick Limited 2008."--P. 63.

"Includes drawn vignettes by Richard Shirley Smith from the Florilegium."--Moss.

Cover title.

Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 143

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers.

BAC: From the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith.

"This exclusive exhibition book explains the history of the term 'florilegium' using one of the introductions to The Highgrove Florilegium by Christopher Mills, Librarian at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It also describes the traditional crafts used in the making of the publication and lists the artists' biographies, whilst being interspersed with beautiful images from the watercolour collection."--Back cover.
Subject Terms:
Botanical illustration -- Exhibitions -- England. | Plants in art -- Exhibitions -- England. | Flowers in art -- Exhibitions -- England. | Botanical artists -- Biography. | Highgrove (England) | Garden Museum -- Publisher.
Contributors:
Shirley Smith, Richard, ill. | Garden Museum (London, England) | Moss, Roger W., 1940– former owner.