Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
(Fleece Press); Francis Bacon; Betty Pennell. OF GARDENS. The Fleece Press, Wakefield, 1993.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Never bound sheets, folded and gathered into two signatures, slender folio, (17) pages, illustrated with six perspex engravings by Betty Pennell. One of 220 copies printed from Van DiJck type by Simon Lawrence on Velin Arches Blanc paper. A fine, complete unbound copy in a supplied board portfolio covered with Italian decorated paper, with spine labels.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Bacon, Francis. Of Gardens. Fleece Press, 1993.
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardback, quarter cloth, boards covered with Jayne Mansfield floral paper. 32 x 24cm. [14pp] with 6 perspex engravings by Betty Pennell. One of an edition of 220 copies. An excellent clean copy.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Bacon, Francis. OF GARDENS. Fleece Press, W. Yorks, 1993.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited tp 220 copies. Folio. Unpaged. 8 leaves including plates and colophon. Illustrated by Betty Pennell with 6 perspex engravings printed on Velin Arches Blanc paper in Van Dijck type set at The Rocket Press. Bound in quarter green cloth over Jane Mansfield's floral paper, paper spine label.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$212.56 + shipping
Description: One of an edition of 220 copies set in Van Dijk type at The Rocket Press and printed on Velin Arches Blanc. Bound in quarter sage cloth, with paper-covered boards of Jane Mansfield's floral design, paper label to the spine. Fore-edge and lower edge of page block untrimmed. Folio. pp. [3 blank] [engraving] [title page with engraving] [copyright page] [11] [3 blank], with a total of six engravings. A book in Fine condition now with a clear, removable, archival protective cover. 'Of Gardens' is one of the 58 Essays or Counsels, Civill and Morall, published in 1625 and written by Francis Bacon between 1597 and 1625.
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom