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Further Reading

A selection of resources for those who would like to explore further.
  • Blunt, Wilfrid. The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History. New York: Dover Publications, 1994.
  • Bréchot, Jean-François. “Note bibliographique sur les 'Plantes du Roi.'” Revue française d'histoire du livre, n.s., 5, no. 8 (1974): 369–80.
  • Brindle, John V. Flora Portrayed: Classics of Botanical Art from the Hunt Institute Collection. Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1985.
  • Dunthorne, Gordon. Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries: Their History, Makers and Uses, with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Works in Which They Are Found. Washington, D.C: Published by the author, 1938.
  • Keeler, Nancy Boghossian. Gardens in Perpetual Bloom: Botanical Illustration in Europe and America 1600–1850. 1st ed. Boston: MFA Publications, 2009.
  • Laissus, Yves. “Les Plantes du Roi. Note sur un grand ouvrage de botanique préparé au XVIIe siècle par l'Académie royale des Sciences.” Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications 22, no. 3 (1969): 193–236.
  • Nissen, Claus. Die botanische Buchillustration; Ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1951.
  • Overstreet, Leslie K. Botanicals: Butterflies & Insects. New York, N.Y.: Assouline, 2008.
  • Pavière, Sydney H., and Jean Baptiste Monnoyer. Jean Baptiste Monnoyer, 1634–1699. Leigh-on-Sea (Ex.): F. Lewis, 1966.
  • Pierpont Morgan Library. Flowers in Books and Drawings, ca. 940–1840. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1980.
  • Quinby, Jane. Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library, 1958.
  • Rix, Martyn. The Art of the Plant World: The Great Botanical Illustrators and Their Work. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1980.
  • Robert-Dumesnil, A. P. F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Paris: G. Warée, 1835.
  • Sitwell, Sacheverell, and Wilfrid Blunt. Great Flower Books, 1700–1900: A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.
  • Stroup, Alice. A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
  • Tongiorgi Tomasi, Lucia. An Oak Spring Flora: Flower Illustration from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time: A Selection of the Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Works of Art in the Collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon. Upperville, Va.: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1997.