Book ID: 109621
Hill, Diana E and Edmée H. Cudmore (eds.)
Mr Guilfoyle's Shakespearian Botany. 2018. illus. 219 p. Hardcover.
The great William Guilfoyle, credited as the architect of Melbourne's Royal Botanic gardens, was an eminent landscape designer, botanist and writer. Here are his collected writings on the dozens of plants, fruits and flowers William Shakespeare referred to in his plays and poems. Each entry is accompanied by Basilius Besler's groundbreaking illustrations and delicate watercolours by Jacques le Morgues