DINE, Jim (b. 1935), illustrator. The Temple of Flora. Twenty-eight drypoint-engravings...with Botanical notes compiled and poetry selected by Glenn Todd & Nancy Dine. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984.
DINE, Jim (b. 1935), illustrator. The Temple of Flora. Twenty-eight drypoint-engravings...with Botanical notes compiled and poetry selected by Glenn Todd & Nancy Dine. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984.

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DINE, Jim (b. 1935), illustrator. The Temple of Flora. Twenty-eight drypoint-engravings...with Botanical notes compiled and poetry selected by Glenn Todd & Nancy Dine. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984.

2o. 28 drypoint etchings, combining engraving and drypoint, using hand and electric tools, by Jim Dine, plus an additional print on chine collé from the second state of the frontispiece (entitled "Details from Nancy's Garden"), SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, laid in separate printed folder. Quarter green morocco, gilt-lettered on spine; custom cloth box with an inset bas-relief sculpture designed by Dine and cast by Ron Dillon, representing Flora's temple gate on upper cover; outer cloth folding case.

LIMITED EDITION OF JIM DINE'S TEMPLE OF FLORA, number 121 of 150 copies signed by the artist and containing an additional signed print, of an edition of 175. Dine's rendition is modelled after John Thornton's work of the same name (1807), and includes poems by John Ashbery, Hart Crane, Robert Creeley, Thom Gunn, Denise Levertov, Josephine Miles, Frank O'Hara, Ron Padgett, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, and others. Norman 640.

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