Palmetum (the author’s copy with proof set)

A$15,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Depicted by Juli Haas, Ray Crooke, Jan Senbergs, Anneke Silver, Cheryl Wildon, Danny Moynihan, Margaret Wilson, Normana Wight, Jorg Schmeisser, David Paulson, Ron McBurnie, Tate Adams, Anne Lord. With text by Jenny Zimmer. Introduction by John L. Dowe, Palm Biologist, James Cook University. Townsville : Lyrebird Press, 2002. Folio (470 x 395 mm), screen printed papered boards, cloth spine, pp. [52], with original etchings, silk screens, dry points, linocuts and wood engravings by the artists, printed on BFK rag paper, housed in the publisher s folding clamshell box with screenprint designs of palms. Printed in an edition of 40 copies of which copies 26 to 40 are reserved for the artists and collaborators. Signed by all thirteen artists. This is copy number 26, with a presentation inscription on the front free endpaper For Jenny from Tate, Dec 2002 . Designed by Tate Adams, produced with Ron McBurnie at the workshop of the Lyre Bird Press at James Cook University, Townsville. Text printed from relief plates, typography by Charles Teuma. Bound in Brisbane by Friedhelm Pohlmann. The project was started in 1995 and finished and published in 2002. An extraordinarily beautiful and lavish Australian artists book devoted to the palm tree, inspired by the Palmetum of Townsville, one of the three botanical gardens of the city and the most significant garden in the world dedicated to the palm tree, with numerous rare and endangered species. Of all of the books we made at Lyre Bird Press

• Binding: Hardcover

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