A Field of Owls

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A Field of Owls

Leonard Baskin Snow Owl Watercolor. Easthampton, Massachusetts, c. 1975 COMMISSIONED BY ARTHUR JAFFE FOR LOIS JAFFE PROMISED GIFT OF ARTHUR JAFFE TO FAU LIBRARIES
Aime Maeght Maeght Editeur Derriere le Miroir, no. 185 Lithography Edition of 150 Paris, 1970
Henry Holt and Company Bembo’s Zoo: An Animal ABC Book by Robert de Vicq de Cumptich New York, 2000
Harcourt Brace & Company The Disappearing Alphabet by Richard Wilbur Illustrated by David Diaz New York, 1998
The Atlantic Monthly Press The Owl-Scatterer by Howard Norman Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy Boston, 1986
The Gehenna Press A Primer of Birds by Ted Hughes Woodcuts by Leonard Baskin Letterpress on handmade paper Edition of 250 Lurley in Devon, England, 1981
The National Science Association of America The Birds of North America Jacob H. Studer, editor Letterpress, lithography New York, 1888 Figure 5 (bottom left) is the Burrowing Owl
Ronald Keller Red Angel Press The Owl King by James Dickey Letterpress Edition of 100 New York and Maine, 1977
The J. Paul Getty Museum Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta: A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Facsimile edition Inscribed by Georg Bocskay Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel Malibu, California, 1992
Joanna Poehlmann The Owl-Phabet of Art Mixed media Edition of 50 1999
Grossman Publishers Auguries of Innocence by William Blake Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin Letterpress facsimile edition New York, 1968
Princeton Audubon Limited Snowy Owl by J.J. Audubon Edition of 1500 PROMISED GIFT OF ARTHUR JAFFE TO FAU LIBRARIES
McLoughlin Brothers Publishers Aunt Friendly’s Colored Picture Books: Poor Cock Robin Letterpress, hand colored New York, c. 1880
Leonard Baskin Birds and Animals Harold McGrath, pressman Letterpress Edition of 50 Easthampton, Massachusetts, 1974
Atlantic Monthly Press Creatures of Darkness by Esther Baskin Illustrated by Leonard Baskin Boston, 1962
Blue Lantern Books The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My by Tove Jansson Seattle, 1996
Barry Moser and Chase Twichell Pennyroyal Press Master Richard’s Bestiary of Love and Response Translated by Jeanette Beer Engravings by Barry Moser Harold McGrath, pressman Letterpress, bound in vellum Edition of 200 1985
Birkhauser Verlag Jorinde und Joringel A tale by the Brothers Grimm Woodcuts by Felix Hoffman Letterpress Edition of 1200 Basel, Switzerland, 1969
David R. Godine Birds and Beasts by William Jay Smith Woodcuts by Jacques Hnizdovsky Letterpress Edition of 6000 Boston, 1990
Holt, Rinehart and Winston The Owl Among Colophons: Henry Holt as Publisher and Editor by Charles A. Madison New York, 1966
Philomel Books Owl Lake by Tejima New York, 1987
The Whittington Press Matrix 18 John & Rosalind Randle, Editors Letterpress Edition of 825 Herefordshire, England, 1998 The cover illustration is a linocut from Marco’s Animal Alphabet by Enid Marx (Incline Press, 1999)
Minerva: The Press at Wimberly A Field of Owls: The Burrowing Owl Observed Book design by John Cutrone Illustrations by Terri Berns John Cutrone & Seth Thompson, pressmen Handbound by Paula Marie Gourley Letterpress on handmade paper Edition of 100 Boca Raton, 2005 This book features essays on the burrowing owl by FAU Libraries Director William Miller, Special Collections Head Zita Cael, and Jaffe Collection Book Arts Coordinator John Cutrone, as well as an introduction by FAU President Frank Brogan. This copy, which is copy number one of the edition, was specially bound and boxed by Paula Marie Gourley and is the millionth book placed at Florida Atlantic University Libraries.

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