Forthcoming Books
from Lion's Mark Press
SOUTHSHIRE PEPPER-POT
A Literary Feast with Culinary Refrains
by Southshire Roundtable
Stefano Donati, Editor
ISBN-13: 978-0-9799633-0-8
$17.95
Available Now!
From the Introduction by Stefano Donati, Editor:
"..Southshire PepperPot consists of short stories, essays, and poetry written by members of this regional guild. The unifying theme is food. Recipes abound in this anthology, generously slathered atop stories of murder, motorcycles, and environmental ruin."
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YE NARCISSUS OR DAFFODYL
Flowre, and hys Roots.
With hys Historie and Culture, &c., &c.
With a Compleat List of all Kindes Grown in Englishe Gardines.
Embellished with Manie Woodcuts.
By Peter Barre
Gardner C. O'Dell, Editor
ISBN-13: 978-0-9799633-2-2
$19.95
Lion's Mark Press is thrilled to announce the limited edition 2008 publication of a timeless botanical classic: Peter Barr's YE NARCISSUS or DAFFODYL FLOWRE & Hys Roots.
First printed in 1884, this beautiful “lyttle boke” exemplifies Barr's passion for daffodils in all their exquisite perfection. It was a great loss to daffodil lovers the world over when the archives of Barr's Covent Garden greenhouses were destroyed by fire, leaving his knowledge to select audience of historians and habitues of rare bookstores.
It was with this predicament in mind that Lion's Mark Press presents this new edition of YE NARCISSUS or DAFFODYL FLOWRE. Not to be confused with the facsimile edition printed by the ADS in 1967, LMP's volume is, nonetheless, an updated homage to Barr's 19th-century book in both style and design: faithful to the original text – including its idiosyncratic errata such as phrases which appear to go nowhere (in the words of Gardner O'Dell, “The book has always been, even with these anomalies, the essence of perfection.”) – and illustrated by the original woodcuts. Lion's Mark is pleased to have this printing edited and with introduction and additional art work by the locally revered and reclusive Vermont horticulturalist Gardner C. O'Dell.
Features include:
- A May-Day Idyl (1610)
- Lecture on the Narcissus
- Some Cultural Notes
- Double Daffodils and Narcissi
- The Poetry of the Daffodils
- The Descriptive Catalogue (Illustrated) of all the Wild Species, Hybrids, and Garden Seedlings known in English Gardens (The List Covers a Period of 300 Years - 1584-1884)
- Includes floral headers, footers and paragraph Initials throughout, along with 36 additional illustrations.
Available Spring, 2008
Ms Small's debut novel, set in her beloved New England, spans four genrations of a family beset by tragedy and secrets. Narrated by siren-crows and a twelve year old girl, One Crow for Sorrow, Two Crows Mirth takes it's title in the style of a shephard's score, familiar both in the Northern English counties and New England.
One crow for sorrow,
Two crows mirth,
Three a wedding
Four a birth,
Five crows for silver,
Six crows gold,
Seven for a secret, never to be told...
Lyrical prose tempers this potent tale set against reeling fiddles and the Tahasokill River that has always run through the imaginary town of Coldbrook, Massachusetts.
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