[Cheloniidae Press] An Odd Bestiary Or, a Compendium of Instructive and Entertaining Descriptions of Animals, Culled from Five Centuries of Traveler's Accounts, Natural Histories, Zoologies...Arranged as an Abecedary

(Easthampton, Massachusetts): Cheloniidae Press, 1982. First and limited deluxe edition, #9/50 numbered copies (from a total of 300), signed by the designer and illustrator Alan James Robinson. Folio. Text compiled and annotated by Laurie Block. Text printed in red and in black. Illustrated with a blind-stamped sea turtle device on title-page, 26 wood-engravings, 26 smaller linecut initials, by Robinson, as well as red calligraphic initials by Betse Curtis. Plus an additional suite of 26 wood-engraved prints, signed and numbered by Robinson. Publisher's quarter red niger over oatmeal cloth-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt; by Gray Parrot; suite of prints loose as issued in matching oatmeal cloth chemise; together in matching quarter red niger fall-down-back box, scattered soiling.

A lovely deluxe copy.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.