Mesembs: The Titanopsis Group
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We are now taking orders for Mesembs: The Titanopsis Group. Your subscription to any of our three editions gives us an opportunity to formally recognize you as a project supporter in the pages of the book itself, so please order now for delivery in late 2012.
Standard Edition
This full-color hardback will be 160–200 pages on fine art paper with dust jacket and printed end papers. The book will feature photographs of all species in nine genera, hand-drawn illustrations, distribution maps, and at least one representative painting for each genus from both newly commissioned and classic works by well-known botanical artists.
Collector's Edition
Our Collector's Edition will feature a letterpress- and woodblock-printed dust jacket by book artist Abigail Rorer, who is illustrating the cover with custom wood engravings. The book will be fit to a hand-made slipcase and be packaged with a folder containing three original, signed wood engravings from the book's cover, suitable for framing.
No more than 26 pre-publication Collector's Editions will sold. No post-publication copies will be available.
Collectors will be recognized as Patrons in a special acknowledgements section of the book.
Founder's Edition
Up to ten numbered editions will be produced for our Project Founders. This deluxe boxed edition will be hand bound copy of unique design and unusual materials and will feature original artwork. Purchasers of the Founder's Edition will be credited in the book's front matter. Three Founder's editions remain available on a pre-publication basis. Please contact us for more information on how to obtain your copy.
Hard cover with dust jacket, approximately 160 pages
Publication date: September 2012 (anticipated)
Price: $ 59.95