A Gathering of Flowers from Shakespeare by David Hoeniger; Illustrator-Gerard Brender a Brandis - 2006-04-20

Erin Ont.: Porcupines Quill, 2006. ----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover/trade, square clean and tight, flat uncreased spine, 143 pages filled with wood engravings, comes with loosely laid in two page press release. " In this remarkable volume, one of Canada's well-known wood engravers has collaborated with a distinguished professor of English to create a work of art & scholarship both beautiful & informative." Check out the scans. . First Edition First Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Gerard Brender a Brandis . 8vo.

Erin, Ontario: The Porcupine's Quill [0-88984-290-6] 2006. (Mass market paperback) 131+. Near fine. 8vo. Beautifully inscribed by the artist to the title page. More than 60 engravings by Gerard Brender à Brandis of the flowers mentioned in Shakespeare's canon, with quotations as selected and interpreted by F, David Hoeniger, professor emeritus, Department of English, at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Related ephemera laid in. Top corner ever so faintly bumped; otherwise a fine copy..

Erin, Ontario : The Porcupine's Quill, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With Quotations Selected and Interpreted by U of T English professor F. David Hoeniger.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill, 2006. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Hint of cover wear only. Nice, clean, tight, unmarked copy. In this remarkable volume, one of Canada's most celebrated artists has collaborated with a distinguished professor of English to create a work of art and scholarship both beautiful and informative. Sir Phillip Sydney, one of the earliest of English literary critics, claimed that the purpose of poesie', or literature, was to teach and to delight'. "A Gathering of Flowers" accomplishes both goals with great success. The artist's astonishingly realistic images are accompanied by a succinct education in the nature and properties of flowers, and by the quotations and explication of lines written by the greatest poet of the English language. Shakespeare used flower imagery in many of his plays, providing dramatic significance as well as aeshetic effect. David Hoeniger cites many of these, including Oberon's vivid ... I know a bank where the… Read More