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Review: Botanica Magnifica by Jonathan Singer

By Jessica Griggs

7 October 2009

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(Image: Jonathan Singer)

Gallery: Plant celebrities take to the red carpet

HAND bound in goatskin, Jonathan Singer‘s massive “double elephant folio” volume of 250 photographs of exotic flowers and plants sits on the shelves of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. You’d be lucky to be allowed a glimpse of it, as a similar volume is said to be worth $2.5 million. But now there is a trade edition around one-third the dimensions of the original, but still an impressive enough size and with a price tag to match.

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