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Book Edition Reviews, Book Reviews, Books

Hard High-Country Poems, by Michelangelo, Peter Koch Printers (2015), & Michelangelo: Sonnets, Allen Press (1991)

{Ed. Note: Thank you to Peter Koch and Robert Bringhurst for assisting me by pointing out some embarrassing type-o’s and other items needing correction. I have always remarked that the editor of Books and Vines better never leave his day job!} Michelangelo (1475-1564, full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) is synonymous with the High Renaissance and Mannerism.  His influence on Western Art is beyond measurement. In … Continue reading Hard High-Country Poems, by Michelangelo, Peter Koch Printers (2015), & Michelangelo: Sonnets, Allen Press (1991)

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Book Reviews, Wine

The Adventures of Chef Gallois, by Idwal Jones, The Yolla Bolly Press (2000)

A week ago, Books and Vines highlighted Isak Dinesen’s Babette’s Feast from The Yolly Bolly Press, which came one week after looking at the Limited Editions Club edition of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s classic work The Physiology of Taste. If those were not enough to get your taste buds watering for a nice dinner and wine and/or for fine press books, I have one more literary … Continue reading The Adventures of Chef Gallois, by Idwal Jones, The Yolla Bolly Press (2000)

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Book Reviews, Wine

A Review of ‘Babette’s Feast’, by Isak Dinesen, The Yolla Bolly Press

There are few pleasures in life greater than high quality literature in a fine press edition, dining on excellent food and drinking world class wine. Managing to have a book that intellectually combines all three is a near miracle in my world, and dangerous to boot!  Dangerous?  Financially so, as the book is impossible to resist purchasing and while reading it, one is essentially forced … Continue reading A Review of ‘Babette’s Feast’, by Isak Dinesen, The Yolla Bolly Press

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