Susan Acker
A Potpourri: Information and Recipes for Making Sweet Scents, (1979)
Mill Valley, CA: Splendid Press and Paper Works
From an edition of 230, this is one of an unknown number of deluxe copies, specially bound.
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45pp. Signed by Susan Acker, Dianne Weiss, and Carol Cunningham, the three authors, who also designed, printed, and bound the book. With many botanical illustrations in color and black &...
45pp. Signed by Susan Acker, Dianne Weiss, and Carol Cunningham, the three authors, who also designed, printed, and bound the book. With many botanical illustrations in color and black & white, using linocuts and line drawings. The authors describe the preparation of potpourri, offering recipes and morsels of floral mythology. Very fine in flowered boards, quarter-bound in wine morocco with a gilt-lettered spine. Pocket of potpourri attached to glassine dust-wrapper. (Bradbury, p. 238). (2 5/8 by 2 3/8; 67x61mm).


