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The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands

Design Category
Book design, 1974
Designer
Stephen Harvard
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The folio Natural History contains 220 black and white reduced reproductions of all the large hand-colored engravings of Mark Catesby, an artist-scientist who came to southern America in 1722 and recorded its wildlife. A facsimile of Catesby’s account of the wilderness and an historical introduction are included.

Special feature: Two loose facsimile color plates, 14 x 20 inches, are included with each volume.

Credits
Illustrator: Mark Catesby
Production managers: C. Freeman Keith, The Stinehour Press
Author: Mark Catesby
Size: 14 x 20 inches
Pages: 128
Quantity printed: edition of 1,700
Price: $50.00
Typeface: Monotype Bembo, 16/20; with display in Monotype Bembo
Typesetter: The Stinehour Press
Printers: The Stinehour Press, The Meriden Gravure Company
Printing method: Text: letterpress, illustrations: offset
Paper: Curtis Rag especially made for the book, 100 lb.
Paper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Binder: Sendor Bindery, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in Joanna Arrestox Dark Green (spine) and Joanna Arrestox Light Green (sides) on 98 pt. binder’s board
Endpapers: Smyth sewn, square back