The lilies =
Subtitle: Lilien = Les liliacées
By: Pierre-Joseph Redouté.
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Köln; New York
Language: rus
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Liliaceae; Liliales; Liliaceae -- Pictorial works; Liliales -- Pictorial works; Botanical illustration -- France; Watercolor painting, French
Genres: Pictorial works.
Other titles: Lilien; Liliacées
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 494) and indexes.
Contains reproductions of the 486 plates from the 8-volume copy belonging to the manuscript department of the university library in Tübingen, with additional updated captions and new essays in English, French, and German.
English translation of new German texts: Harriet Horsfield, in association with First Edition Translations Ltd ; French translation: Annie Berthold, Wolf Fruhtrunk.
Table of contents: title: Pierre-Joseph Redouté: life and work / Petra-Andrea Hinz; title: "... And every summer yields us lilies": the cultural and botanical history of Redouté's Liliacées / Werner Dressendörfer; title: Plates / compiled and researched by Ute & Dietrich Müller-Doblies.