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Article: How books came into bloom; Antique flower prints are beyond the pocket of most people, says Richard Edmonds.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- October 2, 1999
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From the Renaissance onwards everything moved towards book illustration. It had begun with the exquisite Books of Hours, made initially by early calligraphers working on parchment in a luxury addition of one.
Then illustration began to take in the whole of the natural world along with love in all its forms, religious and secular, birds, beasts, architecture and flowers. The printing press had arrived and forms of illustration grew in richness and delicacy and the great flower books began to peak in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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