A Tiny Lesson in Bee Culture
Wooden Nickel Press
The text is a brief excerpt from A practical treatise on the hive and honey-bee, by L.L. Langstroth.
An artist's book in 3-hole sewn pamphlet binding, incorporating an accordion structure. A 12 x 36 cm. sheet folded three times is tipped to the last page of a simple bifolio sewn into a wrapper, and may be unfolded for display. The concertina-folded sheet bears a color illustration of a beehive with bees. The wrapper bears a color illustration of bees on front.
"Printed on a Vandercook proofing press ... at the University of Alabama"--Colophon. The typeface is Gill Sans.
"A combination of woodcut and linoleum relief print illustrations. Printed on khadi (cover) and biblio (text) papers"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website, viewed Aug. 2, 2013.
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An artist's book in 3-hole sewn pamphlet binding, incorporating an accordion structure. A 12 x 36 cm. sheet folded three times is tipped to the last page of a simple bifolio sewn into a wrapper, and may be unfolded for display. The concertina-folded sheet bears a color illustration of a beehive with bees. The wrapper bears a color illustration of bees on front.
"Printed on a Vandercook proofing press ... at the University of Alabama"--Colophon. The typeface is Gill Sans.
"A combination of woodcut and linoleum relief print illustrations. Printed on khadi (cover) and biblio (text) papers"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website, viewed Aug. 2, 2013.
