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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. pp.240 with 52 colour plates depicting 150 plants. Folio. A little minor spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw. William Stearn introduces this work with an absorbing account of the John Tradescants, the remarkable father and son gardeners and plant hunters. In artwork commissioned for this book, Mary Grierson illustrates 150 of the plants that the Tradescants knew, grew and in some cases, introduced to 17th Century England. Christopher Brickell supports this with extensive notes describing the plates and setting the plants in their botanical and horticultural context.…