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Dine, Jim, illus.
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
The Temple of Flora: Twenty-eight drypoint engravings; with botanical notes compiled and poetry selected by Glenn Todd and Nancy Dine. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984
Folio (20 1/2 x 14 in.; 520 x 355 mm). 28 fine drypoint engraving by Dine, plates and text on Rives BFK. Quarter dark green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, pale green cloth covers. Box covered in pale green cloth and with bas-relief cast in bonded bronze by Ron Dillow on lid of box and with gilt-lettered green morocco onlay.
Folio (20 1/2 x 14 in.; 520 x 355 mm). 28 fine drypoint engraving by Dine, plates and text on Rives BFK. Quarter dark green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, pale green cloth covers. Box covered in pale green cloth and with bas-relief cast in bonded bronze by Ron Dillow on lid of box and with gilt-lettered green morocco onlay.
Literature
Splendid Pages: the Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books p. 177
Catalogue Note
Copy 76 of 150 numbered copies (of a whole edition of 175), signed by Dine. With an extra print on chine collé from the second state of the frontispiece, signed and numbered, in a printed folder.
The poetry accompanying the plates includes works by John Ashbury, James Schuyler, Thom Gunn, Frank O'Hara, and others.