Les Liliacees

by Pierre-Joseph Redouté and Pierre Joseph Redoute

You don't have to be a connoisseur of lilies to appreciate these beautiful specimens. In fact, the less you know about them the more this new book will fascinate you. Gathering all of the plates from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3822864072
• ISBN13: 9783822864074
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 10.9" x 13.3"

Customer Reviews

Fabulous book

I am the proud owner of one gorgeous book !! The details of the pictures are fantastic. I can't stop leafing through it. Was worth the money !!

One of the Best Books on Redoute

Pierre Joseph Redoute was a great botanical illustrator, and several books have been published. All are well worth having. They are: --Redoute's Fairest Flowers (Prentice Hall) and its latest reincarnation, Choix Des Plus Belles Fleurs (Prestel) --The Lilies (Taschen) --Jardin de la Malmaison (Prestel) --The Roses (Taschen) If it is a colorful, coffee-table sized book you seek, The Lilies by Taschen is your book.* And it comes at an equally attractive price. In time, these books will be in short supply, so don't wait too long. *Taschen is releasing a new edition of Choix Des Plus Belles Fleurs (apparently without the Fruits). Having a copy of the fine Prentice Hall edition by the great Prof. William T. Stearn, I expect to also see a very dramatically colorful, coffee-table sized book by the equally great Professor/Doctor H.Walter Lack, of Berlin.

FACSIMILE VOLUME OF RARE 19TH CENTURY BOTANICAL TREASURES

You don't have to be a connoisseur of lilies to appreciate these beautiful specimens. If you are a horticulturalist or just an art lover, this new book will fascinate you. Gathering all of the plates from Pierre-Joseph Redouté's original eight volumes (published between 1802 and 1816), The Lilies is not just a book about lilies, it's also a foray into the exacting and rare art of botanical illustration.Redouté is widely considered one of the best botanical illustrators in history. He was not only breathtakingingly skilled at transferring the natural world onto paper, but was also devoted to improving printing technology. Amongst other advances, he introduced "stipple-engraving" to France and refined the technique of single plate color engraving. Redouté's contributions to the art of botanical illustration are unequalled and his original printed work is highly collectible. The complete set of original volumes of The Lilies is currently valued at approximately $400,000. For considerably less, you can have all of 486 of Redouté's lilies, beautifully reproduced on thick, creamy paper. THE LILIES, the latest in TASCHEN's historically accurate facsimile editions, is a botanical delight.