Romeyn B. Hough. The Woodbook. The Complete Plates av Klaus Ulrich Leistikow

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<p>Culled and assembled by Romeyn Beck Hough between 1888 and 1913 in what still remains <strong>a stunning and unparalleled achievement</strong>, <em>American Woods</em>¿originally published in 14 volumes, with actual specimens mounted on card stock¿is <strong>a work of breathtaking beauty that has set the standard for the study of trees and wood</strong>.<br/><br/><em>The </em><em>Woodbook</em> reproduces, in painstaking facsimile, all of the specimen pages from the original volumes; for this purpose, <strong>TASCHEN obtained an extremely rare original set of volumes in very good condition, with minimal damage to the </strong><strong>wood cuts</strong>.<br/><br/>Arranged in <strong>alphabetical order</strong>, each tree is broken down into <strong>three different cross-section cuts of wood</strong> (radial, horizontal, and tangential), demonstrating the particular characteristics of the grain and the wealth of colors and textures to be found among the many different wood types.<b