Item #100135 Timeless Gardens. Eleanor WILLIAMS, Wesley STACEY.
Timeless Gardens
Timeless Gardens
Timeless Gardens

Timeless Gardens

Lilydale, Pioneer Design Studio, 1977.

Oblong quarto, [25] pages of text (one at the rear) plus a frontispiece and 240 full-page colour plates of natural Australian landscapes (divided into 35 sections, each with an introductory page which includes a map of the region) and the certificate of limitation bound in at the front.

Full tan calf very slightly scuffed; essentially a fine copy.

Number 17 of only 30 copies of the Collector's Edition signed by Williams and Stacey. Presumably Eleanor Williams supplied the fifteen-page poetic discourse and Wesley Stacey was the photographer. The preamble commences with 'No human thought has fashioned these gardens, no human hand has sown the seeds or watered the plants. They occur where the marks of man are minimal and are in a process of constant change'. A fine copy of the trade edition - an impressive production nonetheless, in cream cloth and housed in a colour pictorial box - is available for $75.

Item #100135

Price (AUD): $300.00