Darwin's Bestiary

Appleman, Philip. Pozzatti, Rudy

Publication Date: 1986

About this Item

Bloomington, Indiana: Echo Press/ the Private Press of Fredric Brewer, 1986. Large folio, 19 x 14 ins., with 12 plates mounted on sheets, accompanied by a facing leaf of text all enclosed in a natural linen clamshell box by James Canary. As new. § Presentation copy with an extra unique leaf presenting the copy to a recipient. This is copy # 20 of 175 Arabic numeral copies (there were also 20 roman numeral copies), signed by the author and artist. Based on the 1984 Indiana University Press book "Darwin's Ark," with poems by Philip Appleman and illustrations by Rudy Pozzatti. A marvelously modern bestiary and a wise and witty account of the morals we still ascribed to animals, even in this scientific age. Scientists think there is something immoral in singular brutes having meat that is plural: beasts are mere beasts, just as flowers are floral. Yet between the lines there s an implicit demurral; the habit stays with us, albeit it s puerile: when Darwin saw squirrels, he saw more than Squirrel. The project was curated by Pegram Harrison, the poems handset in Victor Hammer's American Uncial and hand-printed by Fredric Brewer who also printed the woodcuts. Rudy Pozzatti's twelve large masterful lithographs were printed by David Keister and David Calkins. Text and images were printed on handmade Kitakata mounted on BFK Rives. With small slip laid in giving the order of the sheets.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Darwin's Bestiary
• Publication Date: 1986
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Illustrated Books
  • Science
  • Private Press