Butterflies. Poems

Description:

Limited edition of 130 copies, numbered and signed by both the poet and the artist (this copy no. 50). Handset in Goudy Old Style and printed on Hahnemühle wove paper by the private press, Celtic Cross Press. With a title vignette and eight full-page illustrations printed in two colours. ‘This new collection of fifty-one one-verse poems by David Burnett celebrates the beauty and unique characteristics of butterflies. Each poem is complete in itself but related to the others’ (Prospectus).

David Burnett (1937-2023) was a Scottish poet and for many years librarian at the University of Durham. His publications archive, papers, and correspondence are held in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Condition

8vo, orig, two-tone cloth, gilt, deckled edges. As new.