The rhinoceros : a monograph

Description:	With 20 tipped-in color plates by Matthew Hillier. Original publishers cloth, leather spinelike brand new, as if never opened. Preserved in a brown cloth folding case. First edition, No. 96 of 300 copies signed by Nardelli, who conceived the project, and the artist Matthew Hillier. The foreward was written by John Aspinall. The work is divided into five chapters (the Sumatran Rhino, the Javan Rhino, the Indian Rhino and the Black and White Rhinos) and contains categorical information, including the life and history, about the five surviving species. Hillier spent two years on the illustrations, traveling to Africa and Sumatra to study rhinos and producing these large plates of portraits and paintings. The plates were printed by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press, using a new waterless printing technique developed in Japan by Toray Nardelli (b. 1953) is an Italian naturalist who has dedicated his life to the protection and conservation of endangered species. He is also the co-founder, with John Aspinall, of the Sumatran Rhino Project, one of the most important coordinated efforts to save a critically endangered species.--Abe Books (accessed July 5, 2018).The edition is limited to three hundred numbered copies [divided into 4 subsets] together with fifteen out of series copies lettered A to O, all signed by Matthew Hillier and Francesco Nardelli--Colophon.Issued in a wooden box, which is sealed with micro-crystalline wax and lined with acid-free paperthe base is covered with felt. The book is sewn flexibly on raised cords, and is covered in goatskin, dyed and sanded to emphasize the unusually heavy grain. The page edges are rubbed with flaked graphite, and the headbands are silk thread, dyed with colours used for the goatskin--Senecio Press insert.Hillier spent two years illustrating The Rhinoceros, a monograph published by Basilisk Press. This entailed traveling to Africa and Sumatra to study rhinos, after which he produced 20 large plates of portraits and paintings of five species of rhino, in addition to behavioral sketches. Rhinos are, he says, wonderful subjects to paint--askArt (accessed July 5, 2018)I-ART: library has copy no. 2signed by the author and artist.I-ART: Gift of Mark and Carmen Holeman.
Origin:	1988
Created By:	Nardelli, Francesco; Hillier, Matthew
Publisher:	London : Basilisk Press, 1988
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/289
Collection:	Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	Hillier, Matthew.Rhinoceros (Genus)Animals in art--Pictorial works.Artists books--England. sewn on raised cords wooden box, micro-crystaline wax, acid-free paper, felt, goatskin, silk thread,

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