Diary of an Apple Tree by Macgregor Miriam (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Miriam Macgregor (illustrator). Limited Edition. Numbered 250/385. Octavo, landscape format. Decorated boards, pp.40 approx with thirteen full page engravings of the Apple Tree at all times of days and night and across the seasons. With bookplate of the late Norman Scarfe (author of the East Anglian Shell Guides among much else) inside cover. There are some minor and very small marks at top of page opposite introduction, and on edge of one of pages opposite a plate.

Limited edition, no. 270 of 300 copies from a total edition of 375, large oblong 8vo, (34) pp. 13 plates. Patterned boards, slipcase.

Condition: As new. No. 182 of 300 copies bound in pattern paper boards (of a total edition of 385). Square quarto. Unpaged, two pages text. Illustrated by Miriam Macgregor with 13 full-page wood engravings. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Bound at The Fine Bindery. Housed in original slipcase. No. 182 of 300 copies bound in pattern paper boards (of a total edition of 385).

Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. 4to; 8 7/8 x 10 inches (224 x 252 mm); pp. [iv], [26], [3].; printed on Zerkall moldmade paper in brown and black ink and SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the colophon; copy 181 of 385 copies. 13 full-page wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor, printed on the recto of a leaf, verso left blank, with two additional small engravings on title and colophon. Bound by the Fine Bindery in boards, illustrated overall with a design by Macgregor, with matched laid paper endpapers and slipcase, title on paper ticket pasted on spine. A lovely book demonstrating the life cycle of nature through 13 beautifully executed large engraving of the same apple tree throughout the year. The last image intentionally repeats the fist, to indicate this cycle. Accompanied by an evocative and touching account of the tree by the artist.