Large format oblong folio calligraphic manuscript on laid Fabriano paper, illustrated with numerous original ink drawings and linocuts; with colophon statement, "This book was transcribed, illustrated, and bound by Beverly Wechsler, September 1955-May 1956; bound in half leather and ornamental brocade cloth-covered boards, gray endpapers, edges uncut (losses to leather backing, corners bumped); two pressed botanical specimens tucked inside back board; 10 3/8 x 13 ¼ in.
Little information survives about Wechsler's life. Cooper Union alumni records make mention of her the graduating in 1956. One wonders whether this book, created during the period of an average school term (September to May), was Wechsler's her senior thesis project. Genealogy records indicate that she was born in the Bronx and was still living there as late as the 1990s.
