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(CHELONIIDAE PRESS.) Block, Laurie. An Odd Bestiary. Printed in red and black. Illustrated with 26 wood engravings and 26 smaller initial linecuts by Alan James Robinson; separate suite of Signed plates in accompanying folder. Folio, full burgundy morocco over cream cloth by Gray Parrot, stamped in black; book and suite (in chemise) laid into 1/4 matching red morocco, gilt-stamped clamshell box. (Easthampton, 1982)
number II of 50 deluxe copies with a colophon signed by robinson and a full calligraphed alphabet in red by betse curtis.Includes an additional suite of 26 engravings of the linecuts, each with a calligraphed initial in red by Curtis and Signed by her and Robinson, plus a suite of the 26 wood engravings, each Signed and numbered II/L by Robinson. From a total edition of 300.
