[35] pp. With 15 full page woodcuts by Leonard Baskin printed from maple blocks. (Folio) 41.5x27 cm (16½x10¾"), hand-bound by Claudia Cohen in peach full morocco decoratively stamped in gilt, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, deckle edges, gilt-stamped decorative endpapers. One of a total edition limited to 50 copies printed on hand-made paper by the letterpress of Arthur Larson. The present copy is no. 7 of 10 deluxe copies including a page of Anthony Hecht's manuscript and three drawings by Baskin in cloth-covered portfolio, also includes a maple woodblock used in printing the edition. All presented in publisher's deluxe cloth-covered drop-back box with gilt-stamped peach morocco lettering piece and decorative paper spine strips. First Edition. Signed by Leonard Baskin and Anthony Hecht at colophon, as issued. With 3 additional loose color woodcuts (numbered 7/50 and signed by Baskin) and 12 signed proofs in black. The printing block included is that used to print the woodcut opposite the poem A Fall. In medieval Latin a florilegium (plural florilegia) was a compilation of excerpts from other writings. The word is from the Latin flos (flower) and legere (to gather): literally a gathering of flowers, or collection of fine extracts from the body of a larger work. The term florilegia also applied literally to a treatise on flowers or medieval books that are dedicated to ornamental rather than the medicinal or utilitarian plants covered by herbals. The emergence of botanical illustration as a genre of art dates back to the 15th century, when herbals (books describing the culinary and medicinal uses of plants) were printed containing illustrations of flowers. As printing techniques advanced, and new plants came to Europe from Ottoman Turkey in the 16th century, wealthy individuals and botanic gardens commissioned artists to record the beauty of these exotics in Florilegia. Florilegia flourished in the 17th century when they were created to portray rare and exotic plants from far afield. Modern florilegia seek to record collections of plants, often now endangered, from within a particular garden or place. Florilegia are among the most lavish and expensive of books because of all the work required to produce them.
[35] pp. With 15 full page woodcuts by Leonard Baskin printed from maple blocks. (Folio) 41.5x27 cm (16½x10¾"), hand-bound by Claudia Cohen in peach full morocco decoratively stamped in gilt, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, deckle edges, gilt-stamped decorative endpapers. One of a total edition limited to 50 copies printed on hand-made paper by the letterpress of Arthur Larson. The present copy is no. 7 of 10 deluxe copies including a page of Anthony Hecht's manuscript and three drawings by Baskin in cloth-covered portfolio, also includes a maple woodblock used in printing the edition. All presented in publisher's deluxe cloth-covered drop-back box with gilt-stamped peach morocco lettering piece and decorative paper spine strips. First Edition. Signed by Leonard Baskin and Anthony Hecht at colophon, as issued. With 3 additional loose color woodcuts (numbered 7/50 and signed by Baskin) and 12 signed proofs in black. The printing block included is that used to print the woodcut opposite the poem A Fall. In medieval Latin a florilegium (plural florilegia) was a compilation of excerpts from other writings. The word is from the Latin flos (flower) and legere (to gather): literally a gathering of flowers, or collection of fine extracts from the body of a larger work. The term florilegia also applied literally to a treatise on flowers or medieval books that are dedicated to ornamental rather than the medicinal or utilitarian plants covered by herbals. The emergence of botanical illustration as a genre of art dates back to the 15th century, when herbals (books describing the culinary and medicinal uses of plants) were printed containing illustrations of flowers. As printing techniques advanced, and new plants came to Europe from Ottoman Turkey in the 16th century, wealthy individuals and botanic gardens commissioned artists to record the beauty of these exotics in Florilegia. Florilegia flourished in the 17th century when they were created to portray rare and exotic plants from far afield. Modern florilegia seek to record collections of plants, often now endangered, from within a particular garden or place. Florilegia are among the most lavish and expensive of books because of all the work required to produce them.
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