Ruth Isabel Ross: An Irish Florilegium [1983] hardback Condition:New for sheer peculiar prescience

for sheer peculiar prescience

and their inspiration draws on ideas about nature and the supernatural

Illustrated with approximately 80 images

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Ruth Isabel Ross: An Irish Florilegium [1983] hardback Condition:New for sheer peculiar prescienceWendy Walsh, following in the traditions of botanical artists from previous ages, has put her exceptional skills to marvellous effect in this beautiful collection of watercolour drawings. She has painted here a selection of the native and cultivated flora of Ireland, where she lives, chosen not only for their botanical interest or attractiveness but also because they happen to have an interesting history: Ireland has produced a surprising number of