Oversized portfolio, limited edition, copy number 18 of 45 printed; containing the five photogravures by Franck created to illustrate the 1995 LEC edition of Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees, published separately on full sheets, each print signed and numbered by Frank in pencil, each photogravure editioned at the press of John Goodman on Arches Cover; accompanied by the LEC newsletter no. 577 regarding Jean Giono's work; housed in publisher's custom folding box covered in brick red cloth and lined with black velvet, 18 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.
"Martine Franck gives us exquisite scenes of nature, the sort of scenes that inspired Jean Giono: a hypnotic open structure of cut-stone arches, a church façade dwarfed by the trees that surround it, young nursery trees dwarfed in turn by great looming mountains, the exposed tangled roots of an ancient tree." (Quoted from the LEC Newsletter.)
