The Tulip.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

(London: Bloomsbury 1999). Sm. thick 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (viii 440pp.). With coloured title-vignette numerous plates most of which are coloured and illust. endpapers. 1st ed. Fine. NOTE: The story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed desire anguish devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip from a wild flower of the Asian steppes to the world-wide phenomenon it is today.