From Here and There

Petaluma, California: Mixolydian Editions, 2022 One of twenty-six deluxe copies in an edition of fifty-one, plus six hors commerce copies. Bound by Priscilla Spitler in red morocco over iridescent paste paper made by Claire Maziarczyk. Foil stamped with title on spine. . 7 x 12 in. . With twenty woodcut plates (including frontispiece), six in color, of plants observed in the wild and in botanical gardens internationally. With an explanatory paragraph for each woodcut. Printed by Richard Wagener in Aldus Nova, Centaur, and Bembo types on Zerkall smooth paper. This is the deluxe edition with a suite of six additional signed prints, three in color. The prints reproduce woodcuts included in the book. A fine copy, as new, of a beautiful book in the iridescent Japanese cloth clamshell case. With the prospectus. Wagener observed the plants illustrated in the present work while visiting botanical gardens in countries including Australia, England, Scotland, Lithuania, Austria, and Finland. These international finds are joined by illustrations of plants from the Huntington botanical gardens, as well as four plants observed in the wild in California and Costa Rica.