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This treasury of more than 600 royalty-free illustrations of nature's handiwork will be an indispensable resource for anyone in need of plant and flower illustrations. Showcasing the work of 11 different artists, this highly useful compilation attractively and accurately displays a profusion of wildflowers, trees, herbs, cacti, tropical blooms, garden flowers, common weeds, house plants, mushrooms, roses, orchids, medicinal plants, and much more. Each illustration is identified, and an index makes it easy to find specific plants.
Sure to be welcomed by artists, illustrators, and desktop publishers, these versatile, clearly rendered illustrations will also appeal to students, nature enthusiasts, collagists, and anyone with a need for high-quality images of flowers and other plants.
Sure to be welcomed by artists, illustrators, and desktop publishers, these versatile, clearly rendered illustrations will also appeal to students, nature enthusiasts, collagists, and anyone with a need for high-quality images of flowers and other plants.
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Big Book of Plant and Flower Illustrations - Dover Publications
Copyright
Copyright ©2000 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.
Bibliographical Note
Big Book of Plant and Flower Illustrations is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2000.
DOVER PiEtorial Archive SERIES
This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Permissions Department, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)
However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service, whether it be in a book or in any other design resource, is strictly prohibited.
International Standard Book Number: 0-486-40946-5
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
9780486137032
Publisher’s Note
The Big Book of Plant and Flower Illustrations offers a generous sampling of the work of eleven outstanding nature artists. Included in this compendium are
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