GLADIOLUS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (The Publisher's copy)

Watercolours by Fay Anderson & Auriol Batten, Line Drawings by John Manning

Collectors’ edition. 320 pages, tipped in colour frontispiece, and 144 colour plates, many line drawings and distribution maps, half green leather with grey cloth boards, gilt vignette on the upper cover, titled gilt on the spine, housed in a matching cloth slipcase with leather lips, decorated with a plate sunk illustration, a fine copy.

The limitations page reads: Collectors' Edition. A special edition limited to 100 copies. This volume is numer1 is presented to Fernwood Press (Pty) Ltd signed by the authors.

There is a tipped in colour plate numbered 1/100 on the end paper before the half title page.

Editor's note. One of the most important botanical studies published in recent times, this monograph of the genus Gladiolus in southern Africa combines the artistry of two of the world's foremost botanical illustrators with the meticulous work of two highly respected biologists. The exquisitely delicate watercolour paintings by Fay Anderson and Auriol Batten capture faithfully the fragile elegance of almost all the Gladiolus species of the region.