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The Highgrove Florilegium is a limited edition of 175 numbered sets – set number 1/175 being held by His Majesty, who wrote the Preface and has signed each numbered set. Royalties are donated to The King's Foundation. Book Design and Typography by Iain Bain. Drawings for Vignettes and Endpapers by Richard Shirley Smith.
The watercolours were painted for the book The Highgrove Florilegium, a two-volume set of botanical prints depicting the plants, vegetables, fruit and trees grown in the garden at Highgrove. This publication is a culmination of seven years of work by 72 of the leading botanical artists and is accompanied by text compiled by botanists at the Natural History Museum and was published in 2008 and ...
The Highgrove Florilegium was limited to 175 numbered sets, only two of which are located in public institutions in the United States. MSU Libraries has set #161, acquired in May 2017, purchased with contributions from the Dr. E. James and Geri Potchen History of Horticulture Endowment Fund and the Kim A. Wilcox and Diane Del Buono Endowment for Library Agricultural Collections.
Florilegium. In medieval Latin, a florilegium (plural florilegia) was a compilation of excerpts or sententia from other writings and is an offshoot of the commonplacing tradition. The word is from the Latin flos (flower) and legere (to gather): literally a gathering of flowers, or collection of fine extracts from the body of a larger work.
The Transylvania Florilegium is a sumptuous collection of stunning botanical art created by artists, craftsmen and women, botanists and scholars, and with a Preface written by HRH The Prince of Wales, now HM King Charles III. His Majesty signs the Preface on every book. In 2008 Addison published the first royal florilegium, the Highgrove ...
Highgrove Florilegium. Highgrove Florilegium ( OCLC 463290110) és un llibre de dos volums d' il·lustracions botàniques de les plantes del jardí de la Casa Highgrove ( Gloucestershire ), propietat de Carles de Gal·les. Els volums, publicats el 2008 i el 2009, contenen aquarel·les pintades per artistes botànics d'arreu del món.
The watercolours were painted for the book The Highgrove Florilegium, a two-volume set of botanical prints depicting the plants, vegetables, fruit and trees grown in the garden at Highgrove. This publication is a culmination of seven years of work by 72 of the leading botanical artists and is accompanied by text compiled by botanists at the Natural History Museum and was published in 2008 and ...
