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Captured Views: Impressions of ten gardens. Captured Views is a volume of 10 original poems by Kristina Baer with 16 woodcuts by Ilse Buchert Nesbitt. Complementary yet independent, the woodcuts and poems evoke the look and feel of each garden, the memories or dreams it stirs, the associations it calls to mind. For garden lovers and collectors of fine printing, Captured Views offers an appreciation of a garden’s most precious gift—the essence of life itself, ebbing, flowing, in perpetual transition.
The text was set in Monotype Bembo. For the poems, click here. The woodcuts were printed from the block and the printing was done on Rives paper on an 1897 Golding platen letterpress. Each book is hand-bound with a soft cover of Japanese paper and a printed wrapper. |
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- The Gardens
A dream of Eden (Garden of Eden)
For comfort, for love (Hanging gardens ofBabylon)
Morning mist, weeping cherry (Japanese garden)
Be praised (Cloistergarden)
Pan in the afternoon (Formal garden)
Stourhead in view (English park)
Earthly delight (Kitchen garden)
Border passages: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (Herbaceous border)
Urban renewal (Community garden)
Storm’s end (Window box with mantis)
32 pages, 9 ½ in. x 12 in. (24 cm x 31 cm)
In an edition of 100 copies, numbered and signed - $350
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Zwoelf Gedichte |
| 12 profound, thoughtful, passionate, and heartfelt German poems compiled by the artist. With handcarved texts and illustrations, this block-book is a true masterpiece. A book for the lover of poetry and collector of fine printing.
The original German poem and illustration are cut in the same maple block and printed in several colors in a unique process developed by the artist. Two versions are available as well as individual prints. |
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Each double spread comprises a text and its illustration. The artist’s English translation is hand set in Monotype Bembo on the left page, facing the German text on the right. Printed on Rives paper on an 1897 Golding platen letterpress, each book is hand-bound with a linen spine and a cover of paper made by the artist. 32 pages.
- Size: 13" x 10.5" (33 cm x 27 cm)
- Edition: 100 copies, numbered and signed
- Price: $595 includes postage
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Portfolio
- The woodcuts have been individually hand inked in the artist’s unique painterly process and then pulled on paper made by the artist especially for this edition. The portfolio includes a title page, a half title, and the twelve poems, and comes in a beautiful paper portfolio folder.
- Size: 13" x 10" (33 cm x 26 cm)
- Edition: 6 copies, numbered and signed
- Price: $1,265 includes postage
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Matted Print
- Each poem is also available as a matted print, on the same hand made paper.
- Size: 13" x 10" (33 cm x 26 cm)
- Edition: 10 copies, numbered and signed
- Price: $150 includes postage
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In 27 colorful woodcuts, the author/artist, an avid gardener, gives the reader a guided tour of her small garden, from its first snowdrops, to its herbs and flowers, to its tender plants, brought inside to spend the winter on a sunny windowsill. “My Garden” is handset in Alte Schwabacher type. |
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- #1-#5 are hand-bound in full leather with blind stamping and an additional hand-rubbed print on Japanese paper.
- Size: 10.5" x 7.75" (19 cm x 27 cm)
- Edition: 5
- Price: $495 includes postage
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- #6-#20 are hand-bound in 1/4 linen with a printed cover paper.
- Size: 10.5" x 7.75" (19 cm x 27 cm)
- Edition: 15
- Price: $225 includes postage
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- #21-#175 are hand-sewn in a pamphlet-style printed wrapper.
- Size: 10.5" x 7.75" (19 cm x 27 cm)
- Edition: 155
- Price: $138 includes postage
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Wit and wisdom in the Folktale |
| This collection of nine folk tales includes tales from China, Estonia, France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Japan, and North Africa. One is a Chassidic tale. The book resembles a medieval block-book, in which text and illustrations are cut on the same block. Each story covers a double spread.
Printed with rich black ink specially made by the artist on a heavy weight Rives paper. |
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Double-Spread
- Each story covers a double-spread, printed on one side of the sheet only. The spreads are hinged together to make an unique binding enclosed in a covering wrapper. (24 pages)
- Size: 12.5" x 10 “ (25 cm x 32 cm)
- Edition: 100 copies numbered and signed
- Price: $220 includes postage
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Individual Print
- Each of the tales is also available as an individual, multi-colored print, hand-rubbed on Japanese paper.
- Size: 13" x 20" (33 cm x 51 cm)
- Edition: 25 numbered and siged copies
- Price: $125 includes postage
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