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THE TULIP
[Buy it!] | Anna Pavord | USD 37.45
(Mon May 20 20:48:41 2024) | AbebooksUK | Lodge Books | ISBN10: 0747542961, ISBN13: 9780747542964, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC] Hardcover First Edition First published in 1999 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Hardcover in very good condition. Contents are clean, complete, crisp, tight and free from annotations, inscriptions or creases. Minor foxing spots on upper block edges. Dust jacket with negligible shelfwear and dust/ age toned internal edges. "No other flower has ever carried so much baggage; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behaviour, mirrors economic booms and busts, plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution. Roaming through Asia, India, Russia and the Ottoman Empire, the author tells how the tulip arrived from Turkey and took the whole of Western Europe by storm. In the petals of the exquisite English florists' tulips, still exhibited in competition by members of the Wakefield Tulip Society in Yorkshire, runs the blood of flowers first grown by John Evelyn in the middle of the seventeenth century". Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Addtional postage may be requested from international orders.
[Carnforth, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]
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