The encyclopaedia of plant portraits : illustrations of cultivated plants, showing in alphabetical sequence portraits of hardy and half-hardy plants, trees and shrubs, orchids, ferns, hothouse and greenhouse plants, etc., with a short description of each : for ease of reference there is an index of common and catalogue names /. by A.G.L. Hellyer.
Arthur George Lee Hellyer (1902-1993)
Category
Books
Date
1953
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3225355
Summary
Bibliographic description
vi, 322 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm. Third impression 1956. Provenance: twentieth-century monogram bookplate with initial ‘E' against a rose inside a marquess's coronet and framed by a double L. [i.e. Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, née Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]; plated dated in ms. Binding: red publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Arthur George Lee Hellyer (1902-1993)