Title from cover; statement of responsibility from colophon
Created for Science Stories : a Collaboration of Book Artists and Scientists, an exhibit running from October 15, 2021 to January 14, 2022 at Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound
"Letterpress printed with handset type at Springtide Press. Cloth, paper, and wallpaper make up the scales. Bound in goat, vellum, and paper. Montages sur onglets binding"--Colophon
Issued in an edition of 6 copies, signed by artist
In brown cloth clamshell box
CHMRU copy 39088014890727 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books
CHMRU copy 39088014890727 is signed and numbered AP1 of 6
Summary:
"The pangolin is the most trafficked mammal in the world because of its scales and meat. Talk of this gentle beast came up early in 2020 as being the possible origin of COVID-19 as it spread across the globe. Francesco Petrarch's words were written in 1348, but seem like they were about the current pandemic and not the bubonic plague. The spotlight on pangolins might be what we need to save the species"--Colophon
