Laura Freeman Laura Freeman

Every page of this astonishingly beautiful ode to the citrus is a treat

J.C. Volkamer's illustrations – a sunny, sensuous pleasure – are extraordinary

A sensuous, sunny pleasure: one of Volkamer’s knobbly, carbuncled citrons, ‘Cedro a Zucheta’, hovering over Verona’s Odoli Garden. Credit: © Stadtarchiv Fürth, Germany

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