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The Cycad Collection
Volume 1 Natal Province

Item date(s): 1996

Douglas Goode - (illustrated by)
John Comrie-Greig - (text by)
Brett Hendey - (preface by)
P. Vorster - (introduction by)
Malcolm Christian - (printed by)
Peter Carstens - (bookbinder)

Pages: xvii, 45pp + plates
Size: 330mm
Binding: Decorated covers and slipcase
Technique: Hand-coloured stone lithographs; letterpress
Language: English
Inscription: Signed by the author on the title page
Edition: #20/100

Sub-type: Florilegium
Theme(s): Botany

Place publication: Balgowan, RSA
Publisher: The Caversham Press

Additional notes:
Cover 1/4 bound leather with hand screenprinted floral image.

Letterpress text set in Monotype Bembo and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper.

Each illustration hand annotated, in slipcase

Reference note:
The Cycad Collection was envisaged as the first of a number of botanical volumes. This single volume is possibly one of the rarest books on the subject in the form of a Florilegium. It took a total of five years to complete as each of the completed lithographic images is hand-coloured. Due to the labour-intensive process, the full edition has yet to be conceptualised and will probably never be realised.

Exhibition notes:
Masabelaneni: The Book Arts Archive of The Caversham Press and Centre for Artists and Writers, JGCBA, Johannesburg. 5 September – 14 December 2023

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

Keywords: Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers

Ref: GB/30752




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