Een Tuin in Wit En Groen [A Garden in White and Green].

('t Widdle Vool) VEREL (Rieteke) and Rob Leopold.

Een Tuin in Wit En Groen [A Garden in White and Green].

Zeven soorten zaad in andere verpakking [Seven types of seed in different guises].

Description: 'The edition of this hand-bound book was determined by the number of four-leaf clovers found by Rieteke Verel and Rob Leopold' [Translated from the Dutch], rear pastedown with segemented septagon of gossamer paper, each segment containing seeds and labelled with its Latin botanical name, printed text in calligraphic style throughout, numerous illustrations, two fibrous tissue leaves each with pressed botanical specimen, first text page with pressed four-leaf clover, small hand-painted botanical illustration edged in gold tipped in, pp. 36, small 4to, publisher's white linen boards, cover titled in gilt with small gilt-edged roundel of green marbled paper, spine gilt-lettered, a few faint spots at upper edge of rear board, near fine

Publication Details: [Onnen], 1983

Notes: A highly inventive edition, highlighting the variety of natural seed production in seven examples, namely Old Man's Beard, snowy wood-rush, greater stitchwort, meadow saxifrage, Nottingham catchfly, great masterwort and honesty, through illustration and botanical example: the very limitation of the edition decided by natural chance.

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Price: £65

Subject: Private Press

Published Date: 1983

Stock Number: 75621

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