NELSON, E. Charles & WALSH, Wendy F: An Irish Flower Garden Replanted [LIMITED EDITION OF 100 COPIES ONLY]

Histories of Some of Our Garden Plants. With coloured and Chinese ink illustrations by Wendy F. Walsh. Second edition revised and enlarged.  Castelbourke: By Éamonn de Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1997. Royal octavo. pp. x, 212. Bound by Smith Settle in quarter green morocco on gold cloth boards. Spine with raised bands, titled in gilt direct; brown and gold endbands. Edition limited to 150 copies signed by the author, illustrator and publisher. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in matching slipcase. Rare.

Prior to this publication, An Irish Flower Garden Replanted was out of print. Dr. Nelson relates that: “This book has been out of print for almost a decade, and in the intervening years many things have happened both in my own life and in the interwoven lives of my friends and colleagues, and gardens and their plants. I have also learnt more about the garden plants that we cultivate in Ireland. A new edition was required, and I have taken the opportunity to augment the original text. I have added a chapter on roses, based on my address to the ninth World Rose Convention held in Belfast during 1991, and I have drawn into this book, in edited form, a scattering of essays that were published elsewhere and the unpublished scripts for talks which I gave on Sunday Miscellany broadcast by Radio Telefis Eireann. I have also made corrections, and altered a few names to bring them up-to-date. In a few instances, the previously published history has been revised in the light of my more recent research” - Dr. E.C. Nelson. The book is lavishly illustrated by Wendy Walsh, with 21 coloured plates (including ten new watercolours for this edition), eighteen figures in Chinese inks and nine vignettes in pencil.