An odd bestiary, or, A compendium of instructive and entertaining descriptions of animals : culled from five centuries of travelers' accounts, natural histories, zoologies, &c. by authors famous and obscure, arranged as an abecedary / designed and illustrated by Alan James Robinson ; text compiled and annotated by Laurie Block
- Author
- Robinson, Alan James
- Additional Titles
- Compendium of instructive and entertaining descriptions of animals
- Published
- [Easthampton, Mass.?] : Cheloniidae Press, 1982.
- Physical Description
- 78 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 35 cm + 1 portfolio (26 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm)
- Additional Creators
- Block, Laurie, McGrath, Harold, Cheloniidae Press, and Hampshire Typothetae
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- Collection
- Fine Printing Collection.
- Note
- "Three hundred copies ... were printed at the Hampshire Typothetae. The blocks were ... printed by Harold P. McGrath ... Fifty copies will be bound in full leather ... Fifty deluxe copies & two hundred regular copies will be bound by Gray Parrot"--Colophon.
Hand calligraphy initials in red.
Portfolio consists of signed, numbered plates of the same wood engravings which appear in the text.
Rare Books Fine Printing copy: Deluxe copy no. 36/50; together with portfolio of signed and numbered plates; in clamshell case. - Bibliography Note
- "Bibliography": leaves 65-77.
- Source of Acquisition
- Rare Books copy: Donated from the collection of Lynn Sidehamer Brown and John L. Brown; 2017.
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