Gardens of the Mind Selected and Illustrated by Joan Law-Smith Signed Limited Edition No 54 of 100 copies hardbound in slipcase

Law-Smith, Joan

$95.00

Publisher: Briarwood Press
Place Published: Macedon
Edition: Numbered Limited Edition
Date Published: 1979
Illustrator: colour illustrations
Size: 8vo

The scarce Signed limited edition (being No. 54 of only 100 copies) of this anthology of poems, selected by Joan Law-Smith and decorated with her own colour illustrations; numbered and signed to prelims by Law-Smith; poems by Shakespeare, Herbert, Keats, Pound, Dickinson, Frost, Gilmore, Rossetti, Wright, and many more, accompanied by Law-Smith’s natural history illustrations (text and full-page); half-cream cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, marbled paper sides, green endpapers; green card slipcase with illustrated title label; Joan Law-Smith was a prominent gardener, botanical artist and illustrator, who developed a famous garden at Bolobek in the Macedon Ranges; occasional mild foxing, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards foxed to spine, with gilt titling a little dulled, some toning to marbled sides; slipcase lightly rubbed.

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