An author, book designer and photographer, Barbara Hodgson is well known for her fiction and non-fiction books (including Hippolyte’'s Island, The Sensualist, Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon and No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers), all of which incorporate her own innovative designs and imagery. This is her first limited edition book, and her first printed and bound entirely by hand.

Good and Evil in the Garden (4 x 6.5 inches, 50 pages) has been set by hand in 12-point Garamont, newly cast by Jim Rimmer at his Pie Tree Press & Typefoundry. The text was printed with a Washington handpress on dampened, all-cotton paper. The engravings were printed from the original blocks on gampi paper. Signatures were sewn on vellum slips, with sewn headband; lined; and laced into a heavy handmade paper wrap, with a slipcase. All papers have been made specially for this project by Reg Lissel. The edition of 45 press-numbered copies (including five hors commerce) is signed by both Barbara Hodgson and Shinsuke Minegishi. Issued at C$450 (OP upon publication)

HM subscribers were able to order copies specially bound by Terry Rutherford, a book conservator in private practice. For Good & Evil in the Garden, Terry has designed a binding employing four vellum slips (two natural, two dyed green) laced through the limp vellum case. The title is hand-lettered on the spine by renown calligrapher Martin Jackson. The frontis in these copies was hand-printed by the artist on gampi, mounted on Rives BFK, and signed. The book is kept in a clamshell box covered in paste paper made specialy by Rutherford. A total of ten copies (numbers 1 - 10) are bound by Terry.

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