An Odd Bestiary. Or a Compendium of Instructive and Entertaining Description of Animals, Culled from Five Centuries of Travelers’ Accounts.

Name: An Odd Bestiary. Or a Compendium of Instructive and Entertaining Description of Animals, Culled from Five Centuries of Travelers’ Accounts.
Author: ROBINSON (Alan James) BLOCK (Laurie)

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26 wood engravings and 26 illustrated initials by Alan James Robinson, letter initials printed in red. One of 200 regular copies, with an additional 100 copies in deluxe bindings. 4to., 26x35cm. Original publisher’s quarter red Morocco over buff cloth boards. Williamsburg, Cheloniidae Press. 1982. £550 Fine, original prospectus loosely inserted. A wonderful collection of wood engravings illustrating textual extracts regarding real and mythical animals which are, ‘for the most part, the earliest first-and accounts, in English, of the animals pictured... although there have been many bestiaries throughout the centuries, some of them strikingly beautiful, this edition breaks from tradition in its text, calligraphy and its style of illustration’ (from the prospectus.)

Author ROBINSON (Alan James) BLOCK (Laurie)

Date 1982.

Binding Original publisher’s quarter red Morocco over buff cloth boards.

Publisher Cheloniidae Press.

Illustrator Alan James Robinson

Condition Fine, original prospectus loosely inserted.

Price: £550.00

Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

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