Nelson, E. Charles / McCracken, Eileen M. / Walsh, Wendy F. (illustrations). The Brightest Jewel [Signed]. A History of the National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin, Dublin. With original water colours by Wendy F. Walsh. First Edition. Kilkenny, Ireland, Boethius Press, 1987. 30 x 21 cm. (12), 275 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and B&W. Original dark blue cloth. Hard cover. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex Libris of Sue and Charles Nelson on front paste down. Charles Nelson’s signature on front free end paper (‘Charles Nelson Office copy’). Internally bright and clean. A very nice copy signed and previously owned by one of the Authors.

Provenance: E. Charles Nelson was a Taxonomist at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, and Foundation Chairman of the Irish Garden Plant Society. His Books include ‘An Irish Flower Garden’ (1984), ‘The Brightest Jewel’: a History of the National Botanic Gardens (1987), ‘The Burren’: a Companion to the Wildflowers of an Irish Limestone Wilderness (1991), ‘An Irish Florilegium I & II’, ‘Flowers of Mayo’ and ‘Shamrock’: Botany and History of an Irish Myth.

• Keywords: Fine Bindings & Editions · Fine Bindings & Editions · Gardening · History & Culture · History of Ireland · Ireland · Natural Sciences · Science & Nature
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0863140831
• Dust Jacket
• Signed/inscribed
• First edition
• Inventory Number: 104884AB

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