Peter Beard, Art Edition.

Folio (34,5 x 50 cm, c. 15kg): 616 pp. and companion vol. 4to: 165 pp.

Regina book cloth, leather spine and corners, kept in a clamshell box with bookstand. Companion vol.: publ. coth.

Enormous opus representing Peter Beard's life and work in Kenya "in all its passion, adventure, and its forthright account of ecological crisis. It includes his expansive collages, reproduced as a group for the first time, as well as smaller-scale work and revelatory spreads from his diaries, magnified to show every detail of Beard’s meticulous script and drawings, as well as stones, bones, and other ephemera pasted into its pages" (Taschen). Limited collector's ed. of 2,250 copies, this is number 869 signed by Beard.