CHESAPEAKE SPRING BY JOHN W. TAYLOR PAINTINGS & WRITINGS 1998 1ST HC DJ. Quoting from the flap of the dust jacket: “The artist John Taylor has been attracted all his life to the luminous beauty and extraordinary vitality of the Chesapeake Bay…Taylor not only draws and paints the Bay but for years has kept a journal recording a naturalist’s observations through an artist’s eye. In “Chesapeake Spring” he gathers his paintings and writings into a single record giving us an engaging portrait of the Bay from late December through June in all its splendor and variety.” If you love the Bay or have a friend who enjoys it this book is in very good condition and would make a lovely gift. Please find then: “Chesapeake Spring” by John W. Taylor. This medium-sized hard cover book (8 ¼ x 10 ¼ inches 128 pages) was published by the John Hopkins University Press of Baltimore dated 1998 and if I am reading the coding on the copyright page correctly the First Printing of the First Edition. The book is bound in a light green luxuriously woven cloth with gilt titles on the spine and protected by a glossy pictorial dust jacket. There is a beautiful color illustration every few pages to delight the reader. Condition: This book is in near fine condition. Dust jacket-hard covers and the interior pages are without blemish or mark. This book is in like new condition. It is not ex-library or a remainder.