Susan M. Fraser is director, the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, The New York Botanical Garden. She lives in New York City. Vanessa Bezemer Sellers is Humanities Research Coordinator at The New York Botanical Garden, and a landscape and garden historian.
"Flora Illustrata is a treat for the eyes."—Julie Lasky, New York
Times
"Both handsome and informative. . . . I only wish the book were
even longer."—Dominique Browning, New York Times Book Review
"Bound to delight your favorite gardener."—Vogue
"Richly informative, visually stunning. . . . This enchanting
collection is a comprehensive resource on the history, science, and
art of botany, and an object of beauty in itself."—Publishers
Weekly, Starred Review
"The style is accessible, convincing and even humorous. . . . This
desirable book conveys the message that a botanic garden is a place
both for research and horticultural activity, and demonstrates the
age-old intertwining of books and botanic gardens."—Liz Taylor, the
Garden
“A sumptuously illustrated compendium in which international
experts introduce us to some of the most fascinating works held by
the renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical
Garden”—Sandy Simpson, The Falkirk Herald
Winner of the 2015 American Horticultural Society's Book Award
Winner of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries
Annual Literature Award for 2015
"Equally a feast for the mind and the eyes."—Oliver Sacks
"The LuEsther T. Mertz Library is unquestionably one of the great
treasures of the world. Flora Illustrata reveals with stunning
scholarship the deeply intertwined history of plants, science, and
humanity. Rich and fascinating beyond imagination and now
accessible to anyone. A triumph of a book."—Thomas E. Lovejoy,
George Mason University
"As a synthetic grouping, Flora Illustrata is an important and
useful contribution. The essays are rich, and are accompanied by
some wonderful illustrations. This is a lavish book, successful in
its objectives, and useful to a wide audience."—Daniel Lewis,
Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
"An erudite and sumptuous exploration of the timeless fascination
of people with plants, which along the way reveals the origins of
one of the world's great botanical gardens."—Peter Crane, author of
Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot
"The LuEsther T. Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden is
surely the greatest research botanical library in the world, a
precious repository of knowledge from cultures all over the world
and spanning from the 12th century to the
21st. Plants—from which we ultimately derive all of our food,
building materials, and medicines—are also a source of great beauty
and wonder. Flora Illustrata celebrates all this, and
speaks of an intimate relationship between art and science. It is
equally a feast for the mind and the eyes."—Oliver Sacks
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