DINE, JIM. Temple of Flora. Edited by Glenn Todd and Nancy Dine. Poetry by John Ashbery, Richard G. Barnes, Hart Crane, Robert Creeley, E. E. Cummings, et al. 28 drypoints with engraving, including a second state of the frontispiece printed on chine collé ("Details from Nancy's Garden'), signed and numbered 131/175 by Dine. 521x431 mm; 20 1/2x17 inches (sheets). Folio, 1/4 green goatskin spine over cloth; clamshell box with inset bas-relief image by Dine titled "Flora's Temple Gate," cast in bonded bronze, on the lid. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984
number 131 of 150 copies signed by dine from a total edition of 175. A modern take on one of the grandest 19th century botanical books, The Temple of Flora, by Dr. Robert John Thornton, which was issued to honor Swedish botanist Linneaus. Dine used the original mezzotints as models for his own floral prints, while the editors kept the format and feeling of the original text by using works by modern poets. D'Oench Feinberg 177a-177c.
