The book serves as a souvenir for those who went to see the glass flowers of Harvard, and indeed it is lavishly illustrated with colour photographs. These photographs, however, because of chosen lighting conditions and composition, disguise the fact they picture glass objects. As if they have to demonstrate that the models are true to nature indeed.
Most of the text is on botany, by scholars for scholars, and reveals little about the glass flowers.
Leaves the introduction that is informative, yet the authors could have done a much better job. Details on designs and design processes, tools, properties of glass, what you can and what you cannot do when shaping glass: if it is there at all, it is not there in depth.
I wish I could say this is a good book, but its concept is outdated. ( )

The Ware collection of glass flowers at Harvard University is one of the most amazing artistic and scientific works of the 19th Century. The flowers were hand blown and tinted by the Bohemian glass artist, Blaschka. This book contains pictures of a small sampling of this vast collection and background information about its creation. ( )