A lovely book

[luzula]

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?

Comments

[nnozomi]

Oh, that's gorgeous! I love the coloring on the end papers. (As I'm sure you did, I googled Evelyn Frances Munro and got nothing, but thanks to her I learned about Evelyn Munro the union activist, which was kind of neat.)

[luzula]

Oh, that's cool about Evelyn Munro the union activist! Did not know about her either. I did find an Evelyn Frances Munro who was born in 1911 on a genealogy site, but she seems to have lived on Granada.

By the way, I got a postcard from you today! Thank you--it's always lovely to get something unexpectedly in the mail like that. : )