Library Snapshot on Friday …

No lovely elderly books that took my eye this week. When I saw this new book I stopped in my tracks.  The nature-printer : a tale of industrial espionage, ferns & roofing lead. It is a rich and worthy story by Pia Ostlund, a Swedish freelance designer and printmaker with a particular in the representation of nature through printing. She trained at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design followed by an MA (Res) in Nature-Printing int the Typography Department, here are the University of Reading.  She has been a design consultant to Chelsea Physic Garden, London for the past 14 years. And Simon Prett a writer with a special in natural history … a perfect combinations.