Limited edition artists’ book. Special Collections' copy is number 19 of 60. Printed on hand-made paper.
Requires a custom box for long term preservation.
Limited edition artists’ book. Special Collections' copy is number 19 of 60. Printed on hand-made paper.
Requires a custom box for long term preservation.
Limited edition artists' book. Special Collections' copy is number 28 of 200. Hand set and printed by the author.
Requires a custom box for long term preservation.
Limited edition artists' book. Special Collections' copy is number 57 of 250. From the colophon: "Invited to 2nd China Open in 2001. Started in Beijing and by bus train and foot ended up somewhere inside Sichuan province in the middle of nowhere. This book is a compilaton of images of my travels and explorations in a vast landscape culminating in my performance: 'Cleaning in China'.
Requires a custom box for long term preservation.
Thomas Hitt was gardener to Lord Robert Manners. He was best known for his treatise on fruit trees. This edition was updated and revised by James Meader, gardener to the Earl of Chesterfield. Meader used selections from Hitt's diaries to expand upon the original edition.
Covers are worn at corners and need repair; front cover is detached; spine needs rebacking. Requires a light cleaning throughout. Requires a custom box for long term preservation.
Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville was a connoisseur of gardening who designed two gardens for himself and his family before writing his "Theory and Practice of Gardening" (published anonymously in 1709), which he based on his own experience and reading. Unlike earlier books on French gardening, Dezallier's book is laid out like a treatise on architecture, and addressed equally to architects and gardeners.
Covers are detaching from spine; spine needs repair and rebacking. Paper throughout needs light cleaning. Requires a custom box for long term preservation.
William Sawrey Gilpin was an English artist and drawing master. In his later life he took up landscape design. He taught himself the aquatint process of printmaking so as to be able to illustrate his uncle William Gilpin's books on picturesque scenery (the elder Gilpin was the originator of the Picturesque). Gilpin specialized in landscape watercolors, but turned to landscape gardening as a career in order to support his family. He worked with the picturesque theorist Uvedale Price, whose theories on landscape design became important sources for Gilipin. In his short career, Gilpin became extremely successful, reputedly designing a few hundred sites.
Spine is heavily damaged, cover is separating from text block. Needs resewing. Requires a custom box for long term preservation.
Poet Hake wrote his poem "Old Souls" originally for an 1866 edition of one hundred copies. This edition of 500 copies was published shortly before his death and includes a portrait of his friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Minor creasing at head and tail of this gold-tooled cloth binding; Requires a custom box for long term preservation
For Henry - My mentor and my hero. Like Grimm's Fairy Tales, you are a classic and an inspiration for so many extraordinary and entertaining tales. Happy 90th birthday. With love, Kathy