A lovely book

Look at my beautiful edition of Violet Jacob’s Flemington! ♥ It is not a first edition, since the book is from 1911 and this one is from 1915, but it has some lovely tree imagery imprinted on the blue cloth cover, on the end papers, and on the title page. This book is not at all hard to get hold of in general, since it is in print and is also on Gutenberg, but it is hard to get hold of old copies of it.

I'm not sure why the tree imagery--it doesn't correspond to anything in the book that I can think of. Maybe it's just decorative. But the title page would have fit in well with Flight of the Heron’s ‘roots of two trees growing towards each other in the dark’...

The book is dedicated to an Evelyn Frances Munro; I wonder who she was?

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