Description
Please note: this binding is currently away for exhibition. Delivery will occur after the book has been returned, mid 2025.
Emily Carr, the author of this book, was a well known Canadian painter and character. This book is a collection of stories from her travels in the Canadian rainforests visiting and living amongst the First Nation communities. The design references this with the treescape, colours, repetition of paint strokes; the ‘moon’ is reminiscent of First Nations button blankets .
Full leather binding in hand painted goatskin. Silk sewn endbands. Painted endpapers. Surface gilding, tooling, and edge gilding in 22 ct moon gold.
First published in Toronto in 1941 by Oxford University Press. This version typeset in Doves Type by binder, as the text is now public domain.
Approximately 160mm x 215mm.
Comes in protective drop back box.
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