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[Cheloniidae Press] Bodio, Stephen, and Ted Williams. Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar
Estimate: $1,000-$1,500
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$750
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Location
Philadelphia
Description

[Cheloniidae Press] Bodio, Stephen, and Ted Williams. Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar



(Easthampton, Massachusetts): Cheloniidae Press, 1988. First and limited deluxe edition, #XXI/L numbered copies (from a total of 107), signed by the designer and illustrator Alan James Robinson. Folio. Illustrated with eight full-page hand-water-colored etchings, each titled in ink, hand-colored device on title-page, plus in-text and hors text wood engravings and line cuts, by Robinson. Plus an additional suite of prints, including two watercolors signed by Robinson, eight wood engravings also signed by Robinson, and eight etchings hand-colored in watercolor, each signed, numbered, and titled by Robinson. Publisher's quarter light green goatskin over hand-made paper-covered boards, green goatskin cover label with multi-colored goatskin onlay by Gray Parrot, spine lettered in gilt; by Claudia Cohen; bound etchings with hand-made paper tissue guards; suite of prints loose as issued in grey cloth chemise, signed prospectus in same; together in quarter goatskin over grey cloth fall-down-back box, goatskin faded.

A fine deluxe issue of this impressive publication.


This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance
ProvenanceFrom the Collection of Jay R. Butterman. New York, New York