The Trees of North America - Detailed Notecard Set

A boxed notecard set featuring beautiful close-ups of the leaves, fruit, and flowers of American trees – the latest addition to the Detailed Notes line The Detailed Notes are luxury notecards that feature a striking close-up of a great artwork on the front, and the entire artwork on the back. Each set is housed in a presentation-quality box. This set, The Trees of North America, reproduces details of four exquisite hand-colored plates from François-Andre Michaux’s classic North American Sylva, by such masters of botanical art as Pierre-Joseph Redoute and Pancrace Bessa. SELLING POINTS: . Detailed Notes: stylish notecards with a striking detail of a great artwork on the front, and the entire work on the back . Sixteen notecards (four each of four designs) and seventeen envelopes, housed in a presentation-quality box . The Trees of North America features four details from the plates in Michaux’s North American Sylva, a classic of nineteenth-century botanical illustration. . Published in cooperation with the New York Botanical Garden

Author Biography

David Allen Sibley is one of the world’s best-known natural history illustrators and the author of acclaimed field guides, including The Sibley Guide to Trees, which have sold more than one million copies.

Gregory Long is Chief Executive Officer and The William C. Steere Sr. President of The New York Botanical Garden.

Susan M. Fraser is Vice President and Director of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden.

Marta McDowell is a gardener, lecturer, and horticultural writer. Her books include All the Presidents’ Gardens (2016) and Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life (2013), winner of the Gold Award from the Garden Writers Association.