odds and ends / 2.27.2026

* Maurice Denis, Avril ou Les anémones , 1891. * Glimpses into Plant Life by Eliza Brightwen, in the collection of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. As described in the catalog of Honey and Wax Books : "First edition of Glimpses into Plant Life (1897) by eccentric English naturalist Eliza Brightwen, in a publisher’s binding depicting a skeleton leaf. Born in 1830,…