Flora Exotica

Flora Exotica

Carol Shloss, Boston, Massachusetts, 1972

Description

This book is a vehicle for Jacque Hnizdovsky’s floral woodcuts, which were commissioned in 1970 by The Goodine Press. The texts by Gordon DeWolf were written to complement the illustrations. The colors were chosen to suggest the natural colors of the flowers as far as possible within the four-color limitations of the regular edition.

Special features: Gold foil stamping on spine; gold rule jointure of sides and spine.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1973)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Art director/designer
Carol Shloss
Illustrator
Jacques Hnizdovsky
Author
Gordon DeWolf
Size
9 x 12 inches
Pages
64
Quantity printed
edition of 3,500
Price
$15.00
Typeface
Monotype Centaur, 16/20, and Arrighi, 18/20, with display in foundry Centaur and Arrighi
Typesetter
Mackenzie & Harris, Inc.
Printer
the press of David R. Godine
Plate maker
Mohawk Engravers
Illustrations
Mohawk Engravers
Printing method
Letterpress
Paper
Mohawk Superfine, 100 lb., White
Printing method
Pratt Paper Company
Binder
Robert Burlen & Son, Inc.
Binding materials
bound in Interlaken AV3 Dark Green (spine) and Columbia Bradford Linen Light Yellow (sides) on 98 pt. binder’s board
Binding method
Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers
Elephant Hide (Process materials) Dark Green
Publisher
David R. Godine, Publisher
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