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ABC of Bugs and Plants in a Northern Garden

Item date(s): 2012

Claire Van Vliet - (book artist)
Judy Fairclough Sgantas - (illustrated by)

Pages: unpaged
Size: 167mm
Inscription: Inscribed for Jack Ginsberg
Edition: One of 120 copies

Sub-type: Private press

Place publication: Vermont
Publisher: The Janus Press
Exhibition 2019-1

Additional notes:
In a beige linen clamshell box with the title on the spine.

Reference note:
Vamp & Tramp Booksellers state: “A collaboration between Vermonters Claire Van Vliet, proprietor of Janus Press, and Judy Fairclough Sgantas, an artist and gardener. This work is a double alphabet book, with classical Roman letter forms entwined with plant life and insects. The content is about garden pests – what attracts or repels them –and a plant's defenses. The text gives definitions of the insects for that letter including both common and Latin names. Information ranges from 'common habitat' to 'natural control.”

Exhibition notes:
Samplings: International Artists' Books and Archive on the Book Arts. JGCBA, WAM. 26 March to 6 July 2019

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

Ref: GB/13418