Circle Press - Kirkup (James) & Birgit Skiold. Zen Gardens.

Zen Gardens. Poems by James Kirkup with original prints by Birgit Skiold.. 4to, 30cm, [40]p, Circle Press, Guildford, 1973.

Number 10 of 75 (100) copies printed in English on Hayle Mill paper in loose folds. Colophon signed by the author and artist. Coloured etchings with blind surrounds by Birgit Skiold. Brown cloth drop-back box, titled in blind on the front. A fine copy.

Seven intaglio prints and etchings - no colour on six prints; the seventh with multiple colours. In 1975 James Kirkup won the Keats Award. He was known for his poems and prose about Japan.