Contemplations, 9 volumes, 1987, a set of nine volumes, each with fifty-two vibrantly coloured marbled leaves, intermittently inscribed throughout in manuscript in the binder's neat hand with literary and philosophical quotations, rear pastedowns signed and dated by Philip Smith at head and again at foot, original boards, each cover painted in acrylic, spines with exposed stitching, each volume 11 x 7cm (4.25 x 2.75ins), the nine volumes contained in a compartmentalised perspex case with stand to make a book wall, the painting on each book forming part of an overall image, one side depicting a partly open book showing a wooded and mountainous landscape with wild flowers, the other side depicting the reverse of a book with sewn spine, overall size height 38.5 x 26.5 x 8cm (15 x 10.5 x 3ins) (1)
Contemplations, 9 volumes, 1987, a set of nine volumes, each with fifty-two vibrantly coloured marbled leaves, intermittently inscribed throughout in manuscript in the binder's neat hand with literary and philosophical quotations, rear pastedowns signed and dated by Philip Smith at head and again at foot, original boards, each cover painted in acrylic, spines with exposed stitching, each volume 11 x 7cm (4.25 x 2.75ins), the nine volumes contained in a compartmentalised perspex case with stand to make a book wall, the painting on each book forming part of an overall image, one side depicting a partly open book showing a wooded and mountainous landscape with wild flowers, the other side depicting the reverse of a book with sewn spine, overall size height 38.5 x 26.5 x 8cm (15 x 10.5 x 3ins) (1)
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