Letters about gardens

This is Krasicki's second attempt at this book. And at the same time, after "Monachomachia" , the bishop's second work to appear in Rambler.

The first edition, published in 2014, was set in the Didot font (1819) and printed on Zerkall paper. It is a beautiful and elegant book, but it was hard to resist the impression that it lacked "soul". And as a result, there was no real satisfaction in the work done. Letters by definition are something intimate, small, and here the form and format (quarto) of the book clearly outgrew and dominated its content. Returning to "Letters on Gardens" was therefore only a matter of time.

This time we reached for the fonts Bulmer (ca. 1786) and Bell (1788), which were more in line with the tastes of the times in which Krasicki lived, and printed them on Conqueror Connoisseur cotton paper, in a handy format (162.5×250 mm, 64 pp.) and an edition of 25 numbered copies. The text is based on the fifth volume of the poet's works published by Franciszek Dmochowski in Warsaw in 1803. The frontispiece features Flora by Francesco Bartolozzi, an Italian engraver working in Great Britain in the second half of the 18th century. The whole thing has been hand-bound in half-leather and provided with a case.

We hope that this time we have managed to avoid the mistakes of the first edition and that Letters on Gardens will satisfy both lovers of gardening and the talent of Ignacy Krasicki.