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The Woodbook The Complete Plates

Art / Photobook
By: Klaus Ulrich Leistikow(Author), Romeyn B Hough(Editor)
772 pages, colour photos
Publisher: Taschen
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For the love of trees. An illustrated encyclopedia of American wood types

Culled and assembled by Romeyn Beck Hough between 1888 and 1913 in what still remains a stunning and unparalleled achievement, American Woods – originally published in 14 volumes, with actual specimens mounted on card stock – is a work of breathtaking beauty that has set the standard for the study of trees and wood.

Taschen's The Woodbook reproduces, in painstaking facsimile, all of the specimen pages from the original volumes; for this purpose we have obtained the use of an extremely rare original set of volumes in very good condition, with minimal damage to the wood cuts. For all trees, now arranged in alphabetical order, three different cross-section cuts of wood are represented (radial, horizontal, and vertical), demonstrating the particular characteristics of the grain and the wealth of colors and textures to be found among the many different wood types. Also included in this special edition are lithographs by Charles Sprague Sargent of the leaves and nuts of most trees, as well as texts describing the trees' geographical origins and physical characteristics.

Interior designers, craftspeople, nature enthusiasts, and artists alike will enjoy this beautiful collection of wood samples which includes many trees that are now very rare or completely extinct.

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Klaus Ulrich Leistikow (1929-2002) studied natural science and philosophy at the universities of Cologne, Tubingen and Glasgow, and then taught biology at the university of Frankfurt. From 1986 to 1989 he was Director of the Botanical Institute and the Botanical Gardens in Frankfurt-am-Main. It was there in 1988 that he was elected Chairman of the Society of Friends of the Palm Garde

Art / Photobook
By: Klaus Ulrich Leistikow(Author), Romeyn B Hough(Editor)
772 pages, colour photos
Publisher: Taschen
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