A Year of Orchids
South Melbourne, Richard Griffin, 1983.
Large quarto, 208 pages with numerous line illustrations by Dailan Pugh, Adriane Strampp and David Beardsell and 28 colour plates by Clifton Pugh plus colour endpaper maps.
Cloth; top edge a little foxed; an excellent copy with the very good dustwrapper (slightly creased and tanned).
The limitation page is inscribed and signed by Clifton Pugh for 'Mervyn & Ruth ... 14.11.83' (fellow-artists Mervyn Smith and Ruth Tuck), with a small pen drawing of an orchid. It is additionally inscribed and signed by one of the authors, Campbell Beardsell. One of 1500 copies of a book that is both 'an orchid art folio and an authoritative dissertation on the biology of the orchids of the Yarra Valley' (from the original prospectus). Loosely inserted are a copy of the prospectus and a price list from a joint exhibition of the same name (2 pages). [3 items].
Item #146450
Price (AUD):
$350.00