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Taylor, Tom
WRITTEN IN A TROPICAL GLOW
Books, Prints and Manuscripts Describing the Biological Exploration of the New World Tropics.
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Dallas, DelGolyer Library, 2018, quarter goatskin over Maharam cloth-covered boards, title on spine
one of 40 copies bound thus, Fine
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First edition limited to 390 copies, of which this is one of 40 copies bound thus and printed on Nideggen German mould-made paper with endpapers of handmade Amate, a Mexican bark-paper. With a presentation in ink on a blank sheet of paper by Tom Taylor to Fred Schreiber loosely inserted. Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy.
Amy K. Hughes, Editor; Tom Taylor, Designer; Bradley Hutchinson, Letterpress Printing; Austin Digital Printing, Printing of Illustrations; Universal Bookbinders, binding of the regular copies; Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio, binding of the Special Copies.
Printed to accompany an exhibition at The DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University.
Dallas: DelGolyer Library, 2018; 4to., quarter goatskin over Maharam cloth-covered boards, title on spine; 160, (3) pages. Book # 142248
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