The Woodbook: The Complete Platesby Romeyn Beck Hough

This gorgeous 25th anniversary limited edition book is essentially in Fine/like-new condition, with unbroken binding and zero visible wear. It comes in a protective binder. 861 pages. The illustrations are beautiful photographs of original prepared specimens of the wood of 354 tree species and varieties. This book is the ultimate gift for the woodworker in your life, or anyone who appreciates wood aesthetics. "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 Woodbook reproduces, in painstaking facsimile, all of the specimen pages from the original volumes.....For all trees, now arranged in alphabetical order, three different cross-section cuts of wood are represented (radial, horizontal, and tangential), demonstrating the particular characteristics of the grain and the wealth of colors and textures ... 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."