The Arctic plants of New York City
By: James Walsh
Contributors: Kelm, Daniel E., binder; Granary Books (Firm)
Publisher: Granary Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York City
Language: eng
Subjects: Herbarium; Plants; Catalogs; Specimens; Artists' books
Notes: "The Arctic Plants of New York City combines personal letters, poetry, prose essay, scholarly research, botanical exploration, and artistic investigation, and ranges from the Doctrine of Signatures to the sleep of plants, and from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Muir on mental travel to Giacomo Leopardi and Charles Baudelaire on the necessity of illusion for art and life. Interspersed throughout the book are a number of two-page spreads that focus on a single plant ... with a mounted botanical specimen of that plant surrounded by texts drawn from earlier writers on botany and set in verse, creating a field of word-objects interacting with plant-objects. The letters that open the book lead into a prose essay that touches on the souls of plants, their use in medicine and as spurs to mental travel, their transience, their migrations, their meaning. A bibliography lists the most essential works from the author's research and the book concludes with a reproduction of the index from Nicholas Polunin's Circumpolar Arctic Flora (1959), in which the author has marked in red pen the eighty-eight Arctic plants that occur in New York City."--Publisher's website.

"All the plants were gathered in Brooklyn. This book was printed by the author in the summer 2015 on two Vandercook proof presses at the Center for Book Arts, New York City, in an edition of forty copies. The text paper is Somerset Book White 115 and 175 gm, the endsheets are Hahnemuhle Ingres Blue Green, and the bookcloth is Dover Oxford Black. It was bound by Daniel Kelm."--Colophon.

Limited edition of 40 numbered copies.

Each copy is numbered and signed by the author after the colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 11.

Issued in slipcase.

Includes bibliographical references and index to plant names.