Peonies Paperback – Illustrated, 17 Aug. 2015

I agree with all the comments made previously regarding the invaluable text in this book but wanted to alert potential buyers that apart from the front cover there are only black and white photographs of peonies in the book that I purchased from the Amazon.co.uk website. A previous reviewer had talked about the wonderful colour plates so I assume that my purchase is a different edition to the one available in the US. I feel that this is a serious shortfall for such a topic and therefore limit my rating to only 2 stars and award it a buyer beware rating.

I was disappointed that the pictures were black and white which made the book look like a cheap copy.

I saw the book Peonies by Allan Rogers in its hardback edition (1996, ISBN 0-88192-317-6). It was indeed a good book. Since the original edition is now out of print, I have purchased the paperback edition (2004, ISBN 978-0-88192-662-0). Unfortunately, when preparing my order from Amazon UK, I did not notice that it is the black-and-white edition. When I received the book, I was shocked twice. Firstly that it is a black-and-white edition and secondly from the quality of reproductions. In fact, most of them are not black-and-white, but black-and-black. The bad quality of reproductions makes the book useless.