The Trees of North America

A Detailed Notes notecard set

Edited by Abbeville Press

£10.99

Released 8th Mar 2021

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Detailed Notes: stylish notecards with a striking detail of a great artwork on the front, and the entire work on the back
Sixteen notecards (four each of four designs) and seventeen envelopes, housed in a presentation-quality box
The Trees of North America features four details from the plates in Michaux’s North American Sylva, a classic of 19th-century botanical illustration
Published in cooperation with the New York Botanical Garden
A great match with Audubon's Feathers (9780789254511), another Detailed Notes set

Full Description

The Detailed Notes are luxury notecards that feature a striking close-up of a great artwork on the front, and the entire artwork on the back. Each set is housed in a presentation-quality box. This set, The Trees of North America, reproduces details of four exquisite hand-coloured plates from François-André Michaux's classic North American Sylva, by such masters of botanical art as Pierre-Joseph Redouté and Pancrace Bessa.

About the Author

David Allen Sibley is one of the world’s best-known natural history illustrators and the author of acclaimed field guides, including The Sibley Guide to Trees, which have sold more than one million copies.

Gregory Long is Chief Executive Officer and The William C. Steere Sr. President of The New York Botanical Garden.

Susan M. Fraser is Vice President and Director of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden.

Marta McDowell is a gardener, lecturer, and horticultural writer. Her books include All the Presidents’ Gardens (2016) and Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life (2013), winner of the Gold Award from the Garden Writers Association.

Specifications

Publisher: Abbeville Press
ISBN: 9780789254580
Released: 8th Mar 2021
Binding: Cards
Territory: World excluding USA, Canada, Puerto Rico, Australia and New Zealand
Size: 133 mm x 101 mm
Pages: 16 Pages
Name of series: Detailed Notes