The Herb Garden Eyeglass Case and Lens Cloth Manuscripts

The Herb Garden Eyeglass Case and Lens Cloth ManuscriptsWhether you like manuscript illustrations or gardening (or both!), this eyeglass case is sure to be the perfect accessory. Written as a treatise concerning agriculture as a whole during the fourteenth century, this manuscript was completed in Bruges, Belgium ca. 1470. The artist, Master of Fitzwilliam, illustrated this particular piece with the author, Pietro de Crescenzi, gesturing to others while working in an herb garden. The eyeglass case features

Box set includes 16 cards and envelopes

handshakes

Perfect for readers to peruse on their own or with their favorite grown up

There's a little taste for everyone

and writing

Fuel to the Fire

working as a baker

Why is art so weird nowadays

a blue caterpillar

cover paper & endpapers

Alan Powers tells the story of how the publication of this edition was very nearly derailed by the onset of the economic Depression and how the resourcefulness and determination of the artist

Photography by Carmen González Fraile