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Author:
Taylor, W. Thomas, designer. designer.
Title:
Written in a tropical glow : books, prints, and manuscripts describing the biological exploration of the New World tropics / by Tom Taylor.
Publisher:
DeGolyer LibrarySouthern Methodist University,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
160 pages, 32 pages of plates, 1 folded leaf of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm
Subject:
Natural history--Sources--South America--History--Sources--Exhibitions.
Natural history--Research--South America--Bibliography.
South America--Sources--Sources--Exhibitions.
South America--Discovery and exploration--Bibliography.
South America--Sources--Sources--Exhibitions.
South America--Description and travel--Bibliography.
Travel--Sources.
Natural history--Research.
Discoveries in geography--Sources.
Discoveries in geography.
Natural history.
Travel.
South America.
History.
Bibliographies.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Other Authors:
Hughes, Amy K., editor.
Hutchinson, Bradley, printer.
Graf, Jace, binder.
DeGolyer Library, host institution. host institution.
Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, September 27-December 14, 2018. "About half of the items exhibited belong to the DeGolyer Library, at Southern Methodist University; about half come from my own collection"--Introduction. "Amy K. Hughes, editor; Tom Taylor, designer; Bradley Hutchinson, letterpress printing; Austin Digital Printing, printing of illustrations; Universal Bookbinders, binding of the regular copies; Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio, binding of the special copies. This edition consists of 390 copies, printed in Cycles and Arepo types: 350 on Mohawk Superfine paper, bound in cloth, and 40 copies on Nideggen, a German mould-made paper, bound with a goatskin spine, Maharam cloth sides, and endpapers of handmade Amate, a Mexican bark paper."--Colophon. Plates include an unnumbered folded frontispiece. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Historical narrative -- Illustrations following p. 94 -- Catalogue of the exhibit -- List of references -- Index.
ISBN:
1878516132
9781878516138
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1055414405
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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