A Regency-era woman in a white dress and bonnet holding pink rhododendrons on a country path, while a gentleman on horseback approaches in the background near lush green fields and flowering bushes.

The Most Expensive Flower Book Ever Made: Thornton’s Temple of Flora

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Robert John Thornton spent a decade and his entire fortune producing The Temple of Flora — the most ambitious and expensive botanical book of the Georgian era. A look at the mezzotint masterpiece, the Pontic Rhododendron, and the visionary ruin behind one of the greatest achievements in natural history illustration.

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