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The text introduces the drawings accompanying Forbes's first letter. Below the title is an adapted passage from Erasmus Darwin's (1731-1802) "The Botanic Garden," beginning, "We pass the coast where Calpe's thunder roars, and answering echoes shake the kindred shores."

The image shows water down the center of the image, with land on either side. The land is covered with trees, thougn buildings are visible, especially to the right, where numerous towers stretch above the treetops.

Bain no. 184. Inscribed in graphite: "7/25 Richard Shirley Smith. 1971. Shelley 20."

The image has been removed from the page.

Watercolor scene of grassy hills dotted with brush and trees. Low stone buildings, presumably part of Fort Cox, are seen on a hilltop in the background. Unlabeled.

Label is inscribed, in pen and black ink: "Vinca roseab."

Bain no. 10. Inscribed in graphite: "AP Richard Shirley Smith '61."

Poems by David Burnett wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. Copy no. 96 of the 150 in sewn soft binding as mentioned above. Signed by Shirley Smith.

First edition. Hand-set in Bell type and printed by Jonathan Stephenson at The Rocket Press on Zerkall mould-made paper. Bound with marbled paper from Compton Marbling and Richard de Bas hand-made endpapers. The edition is limited to 200 copies of which numbers 1 to 50 are hardbound with additional signed prints of the engravings, "Thais" and "Girl's Head" [Bain nos. 257 & 258] and numbers 51 to 200 are sewn into soft covers. This is number 32 of the 50 hardbound copies. Signed by Shirley Smith. The two engravings, signed and numbered xxxii/50, are each contained in individual folders with printed labels, all contained in a marbled-board slipcase. The poems are drawn from a larger collection entitled Thais. Six poems with images by Kenneth Lindley were published by the Pointing Finger Press of Hereford in a limited edition entitled Figures and Spaces in 1978 and a further fifty in Thais by the Black Cygnet Press of Durham in 1981.