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Flora

Item date(s): 1992

Susan Allix

Pages: unpaged
Size: 350mm
Binding: Designer binding
Edition: #22/26

Theme(s): Botany; flowers

Place publication: London
Publisher: Artist's Book
Cat.
Exhibition 1996

Additional notes:
The book contains 23 prints, two original watercolours and hand-made paper, some with flower specimens woven in by the artist. The original coverboards by Allix, are in dark green and purple morocco, and silk and suede violet onlays in the form of an iris, with flower specimen endpapers. The book is designed around fragments and extracts about flowers from writers and poets throughout the centuries including Sappho, John Evelyn, Dumas, and Pirandello. Watercolour frontispiece. Clam-shell box.

Exhibition notes:
Item 3 on Artists' Books in the Ginsberg Collection, with some South African Books from Other Collections. Johannesburg Art Gallery. 25 August to 27 October 1996

Gaia: Dialogue between the book arts, natural sciences & plant humanities. JBCBA, WAM. Curated by David Paton & Ciara Struwig. 16 September – 12 December 2025

Keywords: Prose

Ref: GB/95