Illustrated by Ippy Patterson
Portraits of the author by M. J. Sharp
Book design by Dave Wofford, Horse & Buggy Press

Jeffery Beam's ninth book of poems, An Elizabethen Bestiary: Retold, transports us to a time before ours when, as Thoreau observed, "the ancients . . . could imagine more than existed." A world inhabited by beasts both fabulous and real—where the human imagination and the natural world playfully converse—is also a place of mythic vision and spiritual possibility.

Illuminated by extraordinary line drawings by Ippy Patterson, and photographic portraits of the poet by M. J. Sharp, these poems quarried from some of the most celebrated prose picture books of Shakespeare's time seek to entertain, instruct, and inform.

Horse & Buggy Press, adept at marrying image, text, and the tactile joy of the book, conjures a treasured artificat, beautiful to hold, touch, and read.

An Elizabethan Bestiary: Retold will enchant children and adults, while celebrating the variety of human dreaming, and the multiplicity of earth's creatures.

· 30 poems, 29 drawings, 3 photographs
· 92 pages, 8' x 11' 70 lb Mohawk Superfine archival,
  acid-free paper, Smythe-sewn signatures
· letter-press printed covers and title pages
  on 80 lb recycled, acid-free paper

$35.00 regular edition, postpaid
$80.00 lettered, signed, includes frameable print, postpaid

Published January 30, 1999
Library of Congress No. 98-074074

Available from:

Scrap Exchange Bestiary Fund
P.O.B. 83
Chapel Hill, NC 27514