Nature Illuminated,'' all of which are identified in the list of plates. His multitudinous fancies are a continual astonishment. With their beat-up illustrations and their outdated texts by authors often long dead, they lead a shadowed life. But the formula is not dead. Based on 50 years' experience of Kandinsky's work and a long but ungullible friendship with the artist's widow, this brings the ancient words multum in parvo to mind.
Historic photographs help, too.
By Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair. By John Lowden. A great start, then. But this series surely has a long way to go. A good idea, that.