An Island Garden
By Celia Thaxter with illustrations by
Childe Hassam
Paperback reprint of the 1894 edition, with a new introduction about
the
garden as
it is today.
Sewn binding; 143 pp. ISBN 0-9612610-0-5. $16
This special reprinting of the 1894 first ediion
contains all of Childe
Hassam's
original full page
lithographs in meticulous color reproduction and
all of the original
text. Added are biographical
notes on Celia Thaxter, a
description of her
reconstructed garden on Appledore Island of the Isles
of Shoals as it is today,
additional photographis, and an index. This
new edition was published with the
cooperation of Celia Thaxter's family
in commemoration of the 150th anniversary
of her birth.
"Hassam's masterful renderings of the garden and island ... are as
important to American Impressionism as Monet's poppy pictures or
paintings of his gardens at Giverny are to French Impressionism."
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