Quarto. (20)ff. Guthrie wrote, decorated, and printed the book, and his verses were calligraphed by Edith C. Goodwin, which Guthrie etched and printed in a variety of colors. The Pear Tree Press was not originally intended for "fine printing," but rather to add "printing to painting as another medium of a man who speaks always in terms of art." According to Will Ransom, Guthrie "is a typographer of vision and performance, but more especially an etcher in his own inimitable manner, wherein text and decorative illustration are drawn in harmony upon one plate." A lovely presentation, and a superb example of one of Guthrie's noted "plate" books. Color printed wood engraving from Root & Branch, and a rejected proof of a etched color plate marked "spoil only" in pencil laid in. Mottled brown wrappers feature the title design impressed in gold on the upper wrapper, with the Pear Tree Press device printed in blind on the lower. A fine copy housed in the original slipcase with color printed title label affixed to upper board.