The Tulip

First edition, later printing.  440pp with numerous colour plate illustrations and other decorations in text. In green boards with gilt lettering, decorated endpapers. Slightly dust marked upper text block edge and gentle rounding at spine head, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket (lightly bumped along top edge). . This is not a gardening book, but the story of a flower that has made men mad. Roaming through Asia, India, Russia and the Ottoman Empire, Pavord tells how the wildflower tulip arrived in Western Europe from Turkey and took Western Europe by storm. A beautiful book.