An Odd Bestiary. Or, a Compendium of Instructive and Entertaining Descriptions of Animals, Culled from Five Centuries of Travellers' Accounts, Natural Histories, Zoologies &c by Authors Famous and Obscure, Arranged as an Abecedary by Block, Laurie - 1982

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Hardcover. Good to Very Good/Good Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 76 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Good dust jacket. There is some light foxing to the top edge and lower edge of the boards.

University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1986. Hardcover. New. 4to, hardcover. NEW in dust jacket. Bright, crisp & clean, unread. Illus. with 76 leaves.

Urbana: Cheloniidae Press Book, 1986. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine- jacket. Light crayon mark on back board; light wear to bottom of boards; slight spine slant to top of spine. Jacket is lightly soiled and yellowing. Illustrated. ARTS.

Urbana: University of Chicago Press, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. quarto, red and biege cloth boards in dust jacket, jacket is in very good condition with wear to edges, sunning and one small tear, book in in very good + and shows light overall wear, no page numbers.

Urbana and Chicago: A Cheloniidae Press Book/University of Illinois Press, 1986. Three quarter cloth. Simulated leather spine with gold lettering. Glue residue of price tag behind front cover. No previous owner's names or marks. Jacket is slight age-toned and lighltly soiled. Bottom edge of back panel has small closed tear. Overall a EXCELLENT book in a GOOD PLUS dust jacket. . Three Quarter Cloth. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Alan James Robinson. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press/A Cheloniidae Press Book (1986) Original gray cloth covers w/ gilt title on red spine. Binding lightly soiled; top of spine bumped. DJ lightly soiled. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents very nice. . Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Alan James Robinson. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

n.p. [Williamsburg, MA]: Cheloniidae Press, 1982. First edition, one of 200 regular copies (of a total edition of 300, 100 deluxe). Original publisher's quarter red morocco over buff linen cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, bound by Gray Parrot. Slight foxing to cloth boards, else fine. Original prospectus laid in. 26 wood engravings and 26 illustrated initials by Alan James Robinson, with text compiled and annotated by Laurie Block. An exquisite collection of wood engravings illustrating textual extracts regarding real and mythical animals which are, "for the most part, the earliest first-hand accounts, in English, of the animals pictured... although there have been many bestiaries throughout the centuries, some of them strikingly beautiful, this edition breaks from tradition in its text, calligraphy and its style of illustration" [from the prospectus].

Cheloniidae Press, 1982. First Edition. Leather Binding. Near Fine. Copy #XXV of 50 deluxe numbered copies. This deluxe portfolio edition features the full leatherbound book, and a portfolio of all 52 plates (26 of Robinson's wood-engravings, signed and numbered XXV/L by Robinson, and the additional suite of 26 smaller illustrations by Robinson accompanied by a large hand-calligraphed initial by Betse (Elisabeth) Curtis in red ink, signed by both Robinson and Curtis). The book is bound in full red morocco, illustrated with 26 wood-engravings and 26 line drawings by Robinson, with 26 hand-lettered initials by Curtis, together with her elaborate hand-lettered colophon (also signed by Robinson); the portfolio of prints is bound in quarter red morocco over tan linen. The works are housed in publisher's red morocco-backed clamshell box with tan linen boards, lined with brown silk. The book and portfolio case are fine; four of the prints on verso have archival Japanese-tissue hinging at top (entirely… Read More

Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Deluxe edition, copy #46 of only 50 issued with an extra portfolio containing a suite of the 26 engravings, each SIGNED and numbered by Robinson, plus a suite of the 26 smaller linecut illustrations, each with hand calligraphy by Curtis and SIGNED by Robinson and Curtis, all contained in a morocco-backed sleeve that matches the clamshell box. The alphabet book compiled by Laurie Block is equally wonderful. Fine.