A 1,000-piece puzzle from artist John Derian, published by Artisan in New York. The image is a botanical plate of mushrooms — chanterelles, morels, fly agaric, the named and the strange — drawn from Derian's archive of nineteenth-century natural history prints.

The palette runs umber, ivory, deep forest, dusty pink. The variety is the point — each mushroom has its own shape, color, character. The puzzle rewards a closer look. The puzzle box is hardcover, built to keep.

For the friend who books a foraging weekend in October. The cook who actually uses dried porcini. The gift for the kitchen with the wood cabinet of jars.

1,000 pieces, finished 24 × 18 in. Published by Artisan Books in the United States.